All 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 didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
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Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.
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The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.
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Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.
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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.
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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.
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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
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The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.
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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.
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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.
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