#po

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#because #brethren #developing #developing world #die

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

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 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

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

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night! ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#been #grown-up #hours #i #kid

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.' ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#god #got #i #oh #peers

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life. ↗

— Rihanna

#i #just #life #live #my life