Nina Fedoroff

“The biggest impediment to feeding the world is the romanticization of peasant agriculture.”

“The potential of biotechnology to improve human health and nutrition is immense.”

“There's an enormous amount of misinformation about genetically modified organisms.”

“Molecular techniques have given us the ability to introduce genes with much greater precision than ever before.”

“GMOs are the most reviewed and tested food products in the history of agriculture.”

“The anti-GMO movement is a luxury of the rich. The poor have no choice.”

“I believe that we can't afford to be afraid of the future. I believe that we need to embrace the technologies that we have.”

“What keeps the world from being a better place is not a lack of technology, but a lack of political will.”

“If we are to have a sustainable future, we need to base our decisions on evidence and not on fear.”

“We must use the tools of modern biology to feed a growing population without destroying the environment.”

“Science is one of the last bastions of sanity.”

“We need more scientists in public life, helping to frame the questions and providing the evidence to answer them.”

“We are at a point in history where a proper attention to science and technology is indispensable for humanity's future.”