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In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. - Nina Fedoroff
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We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms. - Nina Fedoroff
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New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods. - Nina Fedoroff
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As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain. - Nina Fedoroff
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We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production. - Nina Fedoroff
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There are probably already too many people on the planet. - Nina Fedoroff
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India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has. - Nina Fedoroff
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We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. - Nina Fedoroff
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Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign. - Nina Fedoroff
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If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half. - Nina Fedoroff
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One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi. - Nina Fedoroff
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Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall. - Nina Fedoroff
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There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. - Nina Fedoroff
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If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. - Nina Fedoroff
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Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. - Nina Fedoroff
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