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Nina Fedoroff
American
Scientist
Born:
1942
About
Agriculture
Change
Food
People
Plants
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Carl Sagan
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There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.
Nina Fedoroff
Food
Change
People
Plants
Agriculture
Our
Our Planet
Evolution
Mutations
Results
Almost
Genetic
Genetically
Because
Ready
Causes
Mixture
Subjected
Lot
Improve
Gets
Which
Modification
Create
Modified
Planet
Choose
Radiation
Things
Damage
Basis
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.
Nina Fedoroff
Saying
Food
Me
People
Doctor
Treat
Demanding
Doctors
Think
Our
Way
Going
Century
Production
Treated
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
Nina Fedoroff
Animal
People
World
Will
Demanding
Become
Crop
More
Feed
Protein
Around
Robust
Yields
Affluent
Diets
Sustain
Which
Require
Richer
Ever
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
Nina Fedoroff
Health
Consequences
Benign
Abound
Dire
About
Potential
Foods
Myths
Environment
Observed
Genetically
Concerns
Although
Scientific
Been
Up
Effects
Unexpected
Far
Scrutiny
Modified
Held
Many
Expressed
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
Nina Fedoroff
People
Rate
More
More People
Support
Global
Continue
Planet
Decrease
Many
Population
Growth
Growth Rate
Need
We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.
Nina Fedoroff
Good
Food
Natural
Wonderful
Half
Few
Gone
Living
Think
Back
Way
About
Percent
More
Generations
Longer
Like
Got
How
Gotten
Go
American
Wonderful Things
Store
Grocery
Grocery Store
Natural Way
Farms
Growing
Nearly
Things
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
Nina Fedoroff
Government
You
Overcome
Positions
Know
How
Scientists
Dearth
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.
Nina Fedoroff
Time
Sometimes
Long
Carried
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Seeds
Crops
Scattered
Small
Long Period
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Trucks
Over
Like
Period
Years
Off
Domesticated
Very
Get
Travels
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
Nina Fedoroff
Needs
Become
Weeds
Multiple
Resistant
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
Nina Fedoroff
Food
World
Energy
Our
Ruining
Eat
Developed
Generating
Developed World
Over
Also
Around
Calories
Climate
Ship
Places
Realizing
Really
Many
Now
Twice
Waste
Wasteful
Need
Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.
Nina Fedoroff
Events
Plant
Agriculture
Three
Kinds
More
Advanced
Scientific
Six
Race
Breeding
Billion
Using
Even
Population
Technological
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.
Nina Fedoroff
Buy
You
Change
Example
Fall
Corn
Everybody
Evolve
Indian
Genes
Knows
Because
Makes
Motion
Jumping
Familiar
Dynamic
Them
Agents
Organisms
Fundamental
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
Nina Fedoroff
Environmental
Too
More
More And More
End
Up
Going
Refugees
Doorstep
Your
The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.
Nina Fedoroff
Better
More
Cultivated
Land
Grow
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