What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. – Jeremy Rifkin
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
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
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