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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 Quotes: India has the opportunity to
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: In agriculture, people have taken
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 Quotes: As people around the world
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 Quotes: We wouldn't think of going
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 Quotes: New molecular methods that add
For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: For me science is not
The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: The more we can grow
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: Weeds do become resistant to
We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: We've gotten so good at
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 Quotes: Myths about the dire effects
There are probably already too many people on the planet.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: There are probably already too
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 Quotes: One of the really remarkably
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: I don't know how you
The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: The influence of a science
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
Nina Fedoroff Quotes: We need to continue to
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