“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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They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
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.
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.
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.
