#ow

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#across #boundaries #flowing #genes #idea

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#american #american public #aware #food #foods

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#engineered #foods #genetically #industry #knows

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#engineering #even #farm #farmer #flow

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#food #intellectual #intellectual property #into #lock

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#already #enough #feed #find #food

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#bring #debate #get #industrial #informed

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#both #breeding #bypass #classical #companies

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me. ↗

— Rihanna

#fun #give #i #me #people

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#allows #failure #fear #freedom #go