 | Travels In The Genetically Modified Zone |
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"... an empire that eventually matured further into the multinational corporations that are today inventing and selling genetically modified crops. In Garst's era, ..." - 2. on Page 13:
"... of the profoundest magnitude for both agriculture and what remains of the wild world. Our current ability to precisely engineer crop genomes was ..." - 3. on Page 14:
"... These early domesticated crops foreshadowed the overwhelming changes contemporary agriculture has wrought in plants. ..." - 4. on Page 15:
"... SEEDS 15 scattering. The success of this early selection resulted in an accelerating impact of agriculture on crop diversity and feral plants. Crops quickly became commodities, moved and traded over a rapidly widening area, ..." - 5. on Page 16:
"... form the substrate upon which biotechnology grew. W In retrospect, it is remarkable how dramatically our farmer ancestors changed crop plants through selecting desirable vari- eties, ..." - 6. on Page 17:
"... SELDS 17 stock that over time could transform inferior plants into functional crops: "No one would expect to raise a first-rate melting pear from the seed of the wild pear ... ..." - 7. on Page 18:
"... designated crosses between varieties. With these conceptual and practical tools, plant breeders made enormous strides in developing new crop varieties. ..." - 8. on Page 19:
"... SEEUS 19 In no crop was this revolution more noticeable than in corn, and no one was a better promoter of linking science and business ..." - 9. on Page 20:
"... Because of these changes, corn became one of the world's three leading food crops, along with wheat and rice, but its ancestral background is obscure. The difficulty in tracing corn's origins is that there ..." - 10. on Page 21:
"... types that were eventually selected and bred. Small cobs no larger than a thumb were typical of the first cultivated crops, with kernels containing relatively tiny amounts of starch. ..."
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"... The advantage of this convoluted selection scheme was that hybrid corn, like most hybrid crops, produced unprecedented yields, in some cases three to four times those of the ancestral stocks. ..." - 12. on Page 23:
"... SEEDS 23 butions to the agriculture of his time, and his life's work was a necessary precursor to transgenic crops in our time. He and his compatriots changed the lifestyle of agriculture: ..." - 13. on Page 24:
"... and offered to sell Wallace's hybrid corn to farmers as seed corn from which to grow their crops. The arrangement they made was that Wallace's new company, Pioneer Hi-Bred, would select and breed the inbred lines, ..." - 14. on Page 25:
"... a decade most farmers had switched to buying seed with cash. The same sort of thing happened with many contemporary crops: ..." - 15. on Page 26:
"... It also alerted American farmers to previously underutilized marketing opportunities overseas for U.S. crops. In addition, the North American perspec- tives on farming, food, and corporations..." - 16. on Page 28:
"... international relationships between corporations and governments, and promoting the American vi- sion of high-production agriculture for which today's genetically modified crops are ideally suited. ..." - 17. on Page 29:
"... encountered elsewhere in the world to further expansion of the multinational U.S. agribusiness empire through the utilization of genetically modified crops. ..." - 18. on Page 30:
"... enough to buy the expensive fertil- izer, pesticide, and machinery needed to take full advantage of hybrid corn and other crops. ..." - 19. on Page 31:
"... began to recreate themselves as life sciences companies in the early 1980s, on the basis of their perception that GM crops would be more profitable than the hybrid crops and could be grown ..." - 20. on Page 32:
"... seeds to sell and frantically attempted to establish its own research and breeding program, including the development of genetically modified crops. ..."
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"... of pesticides and fertilizers, the former mainstays of corporate profits, but the biotechnology industry is betting that profits from transgenic crops will replace that income. ..." - 22. on Page 36:
"... will lead to tomorrow's corporate fortunes. Eighteen of the companies in Research Triangle Park are biotechnology firms developing genetically modified crops and other bioengineered products. ..." - 23. on Page 42:
"... especially work involving agricultural applications such as genetically modified crops. This change in the profile of protest followed the movement of scientists out of university and government laboratories and into ..." - 24. on Page 43:
"... I had come to talk with some of the scientists creating genetically modified crops. The breed of corporate research scientist working for Syngenta, Aventis, and the numerous other corporations ..." - 25. on Page 44:
"... 44 IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY tions that have entered the GM crop sweepstakes emerged during the heady times following the development of recombinant DNA technology. ..." - 26. on Page 45:
"... Rather, they consider GM crops a positive force, entailing few risks, for economic gain, agricultural production, human nutri- tion, and environmental protection. Perhaps naively but ..." - 27. on Page 46:
"... work for the new Genomics Research wing of Aventis, charged with finding transferable genes with the potential for insertion into crops. ..." - 28. on Page 47:
"... contemporary research in molecular biology. Moreover, they have acres of greenhouses devoted to growing and testing new genetically engineered crops prior to field trials. ..." - 29. on Page 48:
"... " He went on to tell me what one woman said at a meeting he attended where GM crops were being criticized, a speech that be- came a personal touchstone reminding ..." - 30. on Page 49:
"... would fit into the new business entities that were emerging. Still, the companies that are creating and marketing genetically engineered crops ..."
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