India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has..

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subje….

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions..

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demandin….

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. An….

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people..

There are probably already too many people on the planet..

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is….

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes….

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water a….

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half..

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yie….

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….

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice..

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better..

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agricultu….

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 ….

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology..

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too..

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 ov….

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely ….