Genetically Modified Quotes

• Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

  Joseph Rago

  Pests, Crops, Genetically Modified Food

  "Jeb Bush's Iraq Stumble". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.wsj.com. May 17, 2015.

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• All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.

  Michael Specter

  Corn, Crops, Mankind

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• Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

  Levy Mwanawasa

  Gmos, People, Giving

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

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Gmos, Safe, Economy

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• If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

  Ziggy Marley

  People, Giving, Choices

  "Ziggy Marley: Let's Not Be Food 'Lab Rats'". Interview with Jenée Desmond-Harris, www.theroot.com. June 13, 2012.

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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

  Dna, Agriculture, People

  "An Advocate for Science Diplomacy" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2008.

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• Genetically modified foods and chemical drugs. Two things that will change our consciousness as we become slaves to the world we made, not what the Divine gave us to live in this place and space called earth.

  Steven Machat

  Two, Space, Drug

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview With Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sweet, Animal, Vegetables

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'". Interview with Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

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• Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cows, Stores, Consumption

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

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• We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

  Daphne Oz

  Needs, Demand, Genetically Modified Food

  Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

  Deepak Chopra

  Earth, Ingredients, Processed Food

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Country, Cells, Gmo Foods

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• While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.

  Prince Charles

  Running, Country, Food

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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

  Unexpected, Environment, Benign

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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• When you eat pure food that isn't genetically modified, your physical and mental state does improve and it's worth the effort to make that happen.

  Laura Prepon

  Effort, Doe, States

  "Laura Prepon launches a book to help others heal from weight and digestive issues using integrative medicine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Gmos, Environmental, Introducing

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• If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

  Adam Gollner

  Military, Cancer, Men

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• The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product is breath-taking. When something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, there will be a great benefit to those who have taken a stance against genetically modified organisms.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Determination, Taken, Gmos

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• I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of genetically altered foods on the human body have not been thoroughly tested. Sugars are also sneaked into tons of different foods, especially foods marketed to kids. Again, study the labels carefully before buying.

  Deirdre Imus

  Kids, Gmos, Long

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• About 90 percent of all soy is genetically modified (GMO). Soy is also one of the top seven allergens, and is widely known to cause immediate hypersensitivity reactions. While in the last forty years soy has occupied an important place in the transition from an unhealthy meat-based diet to vegetarian and vegan cuisine, it is time for us to upgrade our food choice to one having more benefits, and fewer negative possibilities. In 1986, Stuart Berger, MD, placed soy among the seven top allergens - one of the "sinister seven." At the time, most experts listed soy around tenth or eleventh.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Years, Gmos, Choices

  Gabriel Cousens (2007). “There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program”, p.179, North Atlantic Books

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• Cows given genetically modified growth hormones make more milk, but have painful swollen udders, have ulcers, joint pain, miscarriages, deformed calves, infertility, and much shorter life spans. Their milk contains blood, pus, tranquilizers, antibiotics, and an insulin growth factor that can cause a fourfold increase in prostate cancer and sevenfold rise in breast cancer. This is the milk used in our school lunch programs and served to our children. This is the milk that you buy every day. This is the milk used in all cheeses, yogurts, butter, and cream.

  Kevin Trudeau

  Children, Pain, Cancer

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• In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that  we don't need genetically modified organisms.

  Jacques Diouf

  Taken, Needs, World

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• Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Gmos, Done

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Government, Gmos, United States

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• Your average chocolate bar now is full of genetically modified sugar, genetically modified soy bean lecithin, and dairy products (super allergenic for kids); not to mention the 'fake vanilla' - known as chemical vanillin, synthetic flavoring.

  David Wolfe

  Kids, Average, Fake

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