Mendel in the Kitchen Quotes

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land that is good for farming is already being farmed. Yet 80 million more humans are being added to the population each year. The challenge of the coming decades is to limit the destructive effects of agriculture even as we continue to coax ever more food from the earth.”
― Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

“Morgan had other experiments going on in the lab, including some “whose purpose no one ever figured out exactly, like the one in which a crab walked around with another crab glued to its back, a fragment of radium between the pair.”
― Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

“when, in desperation, after trying everything else, he squirted drops from an old bottle marked “Herring Sperm DNA” onto his culture medium,”
― Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

“If India alone had rejected the high-yielding varieties of the Green Revolution, another 100 million acres of farmland—an area the size of California—would have had to be plowed to produce the same amount of grain. That unfarmed land now protects the last of the tigers.”
― Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in its success.”
― Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

“At the workshop, Ingo Potrykus met Peter Beyer, an expert on beta carotene in daffodils. They put their heads together.”
― Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods