Crop Quote by Sandra E. Peterson

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

— Michael Pollan

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a…

— Ramez Naam

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 can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

— Ralph Merkle

You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the…

— Ramez Naam

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

— Harold E. Varmus

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and…

— Thabo Mbeki

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops…

— Wendell Berry

While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in…

— Prince Charles

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight…

— Michael Specter

All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If…

— Michael Pollan

Yet if you go to the supermarket and look at food that's produced through industrial agriculture, look at what's happened to the prices. Have…

— Raj Patel