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> [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 demanding in food production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/we-wouldn-t-think-of-going-to-our-doctor-and-saying-treat-me-the-way/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

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## More by Nina Fedoroff

> [“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/the-human-population-is-too-large-and-the-earth-too-small-to-sustain/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/we-have-six-and-a-half-billion-people-on-the-planet-going-rapidly/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/we-have-domesticated-crops-over-a-very-long-period-of-time-like-tens/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/india-has-the-opportunity-to-be-a-leader-in-genetic-engineering-it/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in its success.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/with-my-simple-engineering-mind-i-was-throughout-optimistic-and/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/in-many-places-in-the-developed-world-we-eat-or-waste-probably-twice/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/civilization-depends-on-our-expanding-ability-to-produce-food/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [There are probably already too many people on the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/there-are-probably-already-too-many-people-on-the-planet/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/we-are-sliding-back-into-a-dark-era-and-there-seems-little-we-can-do/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/we-ve-gotten-so-good-at-growing-food-that-we-ve-gone-in-a-few/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/in-the-last-century-as-we-learned-more-about-genes-we-were-able-to/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/there-s-almost-no-food-that-isn-t-genetically-modified-genetic/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/myths-about-the-dire-effects-of-genetically-modified-foods-on-health/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/we-need-to-continue-to-decrease-the-growth-rate-of-the-global/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

> [One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nina-fedoroff/one-of-the-really-remarkably-beneficial-aspects-of-genetic/)

[Nina Fedoroff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nina-fedoroff/)

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