Nina Fedoroff Quotes

Jumping Genes Are Fundamental Because They're Agents Of Change. Everybody Knows That Organisms Evolve. What Makes Them Evolve Is That Their Genes Are Dynamic And In Motion. A Familiar Example Is The Stripe-y Corn - Called Indian Corn - That You Buy In The Fall.

We Have Domesticated Crops Over A Very Long Period Of Time, Like Tens Of Thousands Of Years. And Crops Get - Seeds Get Carried. Sometimes, If They're Very Small Seeds, They Get Scattered Off Trucks. Pollen Travels.

If There Are More And More Environmental Refugees, They Are Going To End Up On Your Doorstep Too.

I Don't Know How You Overcome The Dearth Of Scientists In The Government Positions.

India Has The Opportunity To Be A Leader In Genetic Engineering, It Has Institutions That No Other Country Has.

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.

In Many Places In The Developed World, We Eat Or Waste Probably Twice As Many Food Calories As We Really Need. We're Wasteful Of Food. We Ship All Over The World. We're Now Realizing That Generating The Energy To Ship The Food Around The World Is Also Ruining Our Climate.

In The Last Century, As We Learned More About Genes, We Were Able To Devise Ways Of Accelerating Evolution.

Weeds Do Become Resistant To Herbicides, And It Needs To Be Managed With Multiple Herbicides.

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.

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.

For Me Science Is Not Different From Art, Except In The One Small, Crucial Detail That Experiments Speak Their Own Truths, Not Ours.