"Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through."

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"Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through."

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"Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through."

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"What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting."

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"In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."

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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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"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."

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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 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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