Famous Quotes

"The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm."

Jeremy Rifkin on Food

More quotes about Food

• "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Food

• "You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

  Yogi Berra on Food

• "Beware the hobby that eats."

  Benjamin Franklin on Food

More quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

• "We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate."

• "We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."

• "In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."

• "The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms."

• "The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families."