 They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. |
| What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. |
| We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population. |
| I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT. |
| We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for. |
| The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. |
| 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. |
| What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity. |
| Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies. |
| The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. |
| If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. |
| It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic. |
| Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through. |
