"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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"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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"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."

Environment

"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."

Creativity

"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

"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."

Environment

"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."

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"What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether."

Technology

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

Will

"We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."

Age

"What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity."

Future

"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."

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