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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

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

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The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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 American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: Unknown

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