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Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea wont stop insects from moving across boundaries. Thats absurd. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesnt make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you wont kill your corn because its producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didnt have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and theres no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, Im sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
One thing Ive learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. Theres no fait accompli to any of this. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The fact is, we know that with traditional foods, 8 percent of children and 2 percent of adults have allergenic reaction to traditional foods. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The industrys not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and wont take them. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The insurance companies arent covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Whos going to cover the losses? The fact is, heres an industry with no long-term liability in place. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The other major problem with introducing GMOs is gene flow. This is as significant as buildup of resistance, probably more significant. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The position I took at the time was that we hadnt really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The public reaction was instant and overwhelmingly in opposition, and Blair was caught by surprise. Heres a man who was wildly popular. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If youre a farmer and youre growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
Theyre 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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didnt 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. - Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
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