"We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate."
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"The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.“
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