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Jeremy Rifkin

"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."

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Amber Hurdle

"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."

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Amber Hurdle

"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."

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Amber Hurdle

"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"

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Amber Hurdle

"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not sure the public knows what it wants."

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Amber Hurdle

"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."

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Amber Hurdle

"Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year."

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Amber Hurdle

"Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."

Public

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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."

Life

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Jeremy Rifkin
"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."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"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."

Food

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Jeremy Rifkin
"You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"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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Jeremy Rifkin
"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."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"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."

Life

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Jeremy Rifkin
"A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd."

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Jeremy Rifkin
"The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds."

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