The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you’re a farmer and you’re growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. Jeremy Rifkin Read Quote
Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this. Jeremy Rifkin Read Quote
So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor. Jeremy Rifkin Read Quote
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. Jeremy Rifkin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I’m sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows. Jeremy Rifkin Read Quote
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. Jeremy Rifkin Read Quote
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. Jeremy Rifkin Read Quote
