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1. "The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
2. "What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
3. "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
4. "I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
5. "The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
6. "Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
7. "When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?" ~ Jeremy Rifkin
8. "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
9. "You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
10. "If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
11. "It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
12. "So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
13. "Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
14. "In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
15. "The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
16. "The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
17. "Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
18. "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
19. "We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology." ~ Jeremy Rifkin
20. "Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this." ~ Jeremy Rifkin

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
Author: Bertrand Russell

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