Whats different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. Thats what makes it both powerful and exciting. – Jeremy Rifkin
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
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
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