Genetically Modified Food Quotes

• Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Unexpected, Environment, Benign

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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• If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

  Adam Gollner

  Military, Cancer, Men

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• Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

  Levy Mwanawasa

  Gmos, People, Giving

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• Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

  Joseph Rago

  Pests, Crops, Drought

  "Jeb Bush's Iraq Stumble". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.wsj.com. May 17, 2015.

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• Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cows, Stores, Consumption

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

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• Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Gmos, Safe, Economy

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• I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are
  against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong, there is plenty of
  natural, normal good food in the world to nourish the double of humanity.
  There is absolutely no justification to produce genetically modified food
  except the profit motive and the domination of the multinational
  corporations.

  Jean Ziegler

  Gmos, Humanity, World

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• 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

  Government, Gmos, United States

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• Genetically modified foods and chemical drugs. Two things that will change our consciousness as we become slaves to the world we made, not what the Divine gave us to live in this place and space called earth.

  Steven Machat

  Two, Space, Drug

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview With Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Gmos, Done

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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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.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Europe, Organization, Differences

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• We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

  Daphne Oz

  Needs, Demand, Genetically Modified

  Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As we move forward, you cannot resolve the potential food crisis or shortages without science being part of the solution. Science has to be part of the solution but African governments - and these are decisions for governments, whether they embrace or do not embrace genetically modified food - and for the moment, most African companies do not accept genetically modified seeds.

  Kofi Annan

  Moving, Government, Decision

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