Stephan

“In a world badly divided between rich and poor, the policy preferences and regulatory standards of the rich tend to prevail, sometimes to the disadvantage of the poor.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“At least fifteen studies have now shown that vitamin C doesn’t treat the common cold.”
― Paul A. Offit, Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

“An important early test of donor interest in sponsoring a GM DT crop project for Africa was provided in 2004-05, when Monsanto took the initiative and offered to share its newly discovered DT traits for humanitarian purposes.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

“The number of genetic engineers currently working on DT traits continues to grow, but given the high regulatory costs of bringing any entirely new GM crop to the market, the first commercialized version of an engineered DT crop will almost certainly come from one of the three big biotechnology companies now in pursuit of this objective in the United States: Syngenta, DuPont/Pioneer, and Monsanto.”
― Robert Paarlberg, Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa