Bian Li, Student

The Bottom Line | Biotech's Opportunities |

Transcript for Clip 1 -- The Bottom Line

There is a Chinese proverb that says a man who is full has many problems, a man who is hungry has only one problem. People are saying, "Oh, [genetically modified foods], you can't eat those. Those are terrible. They're not safe." But if you're hungry, if you're starving like the children in Somalia, people who can't sustain their own food, [you] won't care if it's [genetically modified] or not. They're just going to eat it. That's what their main concern is, eating. And [genetic engineering] can be a tool to do that. And we can't just stop at that. So some of the funding should not just be oriented towards [genetic engineering]; we have to split it up and develop ways of education empowerment, of how to help their organic farming and combine it with the new technology...That's how we'll be able to increase the food security especially for Third World countries.

Transcript for Clip 2 -- Biotech's opportunities:

You've got Pioneer, Monsanto and lots of these different companies making many new breakthroughs in biotech. You've got better nutrition, better yields, less environmental degradation, [fewer] chemical pesticides and all the chemical uses we have. So that supports it all and with biotech. I think it's an explosion of stuff. We've got just so many great opportunities here to work with. We've got increased food, increased nutrition, better environment, less pollution for us. It's a huge door we've only begun to step into.
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 Posted March 6, 2001