Because Quote by Ralph Merkle

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will…

— Thomas Carper

Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is…

— Princess Anne

A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which…

— Ralph Merkle

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

— M. S. Swaminathan

A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor…

— Clive James

We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's…

— Woody Harrelson

“As we look twenty years to the future, we can confidently expect to produce and consume far more than we do today. We’ll have…

— GBF Summary

Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.

— Norman Pearlstine

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse…

— Ralph Merkle

A lot of people said this was impossible. 'You can't build biotech for $50,000. You can't build anything for $50,000.' Well, that's no longer…

— Arvind Gupta

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more…

— James Howard Kunstler