The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.

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A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This...

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This...

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in...

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in...

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and...

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and...

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial...

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial...

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA...

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA...

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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging...

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Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final...

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The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these...

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be...

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be...

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Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of...

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The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of...

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It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out...

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Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held...

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Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them...

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The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal...

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The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be...

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this...

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this...

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make...

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make...

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies...

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies...