Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

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So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

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

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One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

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