Gmos Quotes

• There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

  E. O. Wilson

  Creating, Green, Way

  "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.

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• GMOs are found in nearly 80% of processed food in the United States. Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is consumed what are you eating GMO with zoe lister-jonesgenetically engineered, as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton. In short, they are everywhere.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  United States, Soybeans, Cotton

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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

  Safe, Economy, Nobody Knows

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• GMOs could really land us in trouble

  Colin Tudge

  Land, Trouble

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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, Choices, Important

  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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• The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

  Ziggy Marley

  Real, Gmo Foods, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

  David Suzuki

  Lying, Stupid, Safe

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• GMO herbicide-tolerant crops have led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the U.S. between 1996 and 2011.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Use, Pounds, Crops

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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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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• Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.

  David Suzuki

  Lying, Long, Worry

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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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• When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

  Vandana Shiva

  Problem, Royalty, Crosses

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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

  People, Giving, Poison

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• An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another.

  Richard Lewontin

  Dna, Ecosystems, Knowing

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• Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

  Bruce Kent

  People, Difficult

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• I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

  Colin Blakemore

  Thinking, Worry, Would Be

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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, Long, Different

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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, United States, Frost

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• There are plenty of publicly-funded organizations and nonprofits that are trying to develop GMO crops that could help feed people in developing nations by producing disease-resistant or drought-resistant strains of staple crops like cassava or bananas.

  Annalee Newitz

  Organization, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Guiding Principles, Action

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• I think the dangers of the impact of GMOs on the environment are undebatable. Genetically modified crops are tied to the chemicals sprayed on them.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Thinking, Impact, Environment

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

  Steven Pinker

  Perception, Brain, Research

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• I think people need to know what they're eating. That's why I support "country of origin" labeling. That's why I support labeling of GMO's.

  Jon Tester

  Country, Thinking, People

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• So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?

  Wangari Maathai

  May, Produce, Maize

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fda, Citizens, Comment

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