Jane Rissler
Jane Rissler
decision federal funding gives government heard ignoring industry opportunity priorities public role technology wrong
Monsanto's decision is at least a recognition that it has heard the public outcry and that the public has a role in how the technology develops, ... The biotech industry up to now has been ignoring pubic opinion. It also gives us an opportunity to tell the USDA that their priorities are wrong and that the federal government should not be funding this kind of research.
mostly proposing window
Overall, we're disappointed because what they're proposing is mostly window dressing,
needs public skeptical technology voice worried
We are skeptical of the benefits, worried about the risks, feel the technology needs to be more regulated and the public needs to have a voice in the process,
dependent farmers few genetic instead preserve
With genetic engineering and even with traditional breeding, it's important that farmers don't become dependent on just a few varieties of a crop, but instead try to preserve diversity.
crops depends fact farmer intent maximum next return seeds technology terminator work
The fact that terminator technology will work to the disadvantage of the subsistence farmer who depends on harvesting seeds for the next year's crops illustrates the intent of the companies, which is to get the maximum return on their investment,