"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."
― Jeremy Rifkin
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Food
― Jeremy Rifkin
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- "What’s different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That’s what makes it both powerful and exciting."
- "The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you’re a farmer and you’re growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm."
- "What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether."
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