Jane Rissler Quotes

With genetic engineering and even with traditional breeding, it's important that farmers don't become dependent on just a few varieties of a crop, but instead try to preserve diversity.

- Jane Rissler

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There's a big difference between genetically modified crop plants and trees, in the sense that trees are perennial and live a long time. Will tree roots pump out a genetically modified toxin for years and years? And what happens if you have insect-resistant trees spreading genes to relatives that live outside, in unmanaged ecosystems? There are many ecological issues with [modified] trees that need to be carefully studied. - Jane Rissler

Monsanto will continue to pursue applications that will give them greater control over how crops are grown, and to get more out of the seeds. - Jane Rissler

We have methods in this country to control rabies as far as a human disease is concerned, and we do not need this vaccine and it does not work. - Jane Rissler