“It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.”
Zhang Guobao
“We absolutely opposed to that as well, ... The economic benefits do not outweigh the environmental hazards.”
Jeb Bush
“If their economic bottom line is all they care about, then the public and environmental good may need to be realized by affecting biotech's bottom line. Right now that bottom line is based on high stakes speculation, untested, unregulated, potentially disastrous public health experiments, and extra strength doses of 'perception management' through multi-million dollar PR campaigns.”
Brian Murray
“The goal of the environmental committee is to get growers to adopt environmentally friendly techniques. But at the same time we want to make sure operations remain cost efficient.”
Dave Baker
“It was the environmental groups that helped bring this about ? for altruistic reasons, of course ? but the result is that a lot of breadwinners are going to be out of work.”
George Hardeen
“There are actual, real economic, environmental and social benefits.”
John Melvin
“What we're seeing is that [tape's] still the most economical and environmentally friendly long-term storage. If you're spinning disk and things like that, the power consumption and volumetric issues and so on are onerous.”
Randy Kearns
