«We are in the year 2024. If you really want to produce organic apples sustainably, you also have to allow new breeding methods»
Marco Messerli
Organic farmer calls for genome editing for fruit growing, February 12, 2024
«Crispr is being used in laboratories all over the world, not only in the fields of health, agriculture, climate change and synthetic biology, but also in diagnostics to detect coronavirus and other diseases.»
Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Prize winner
Using Crispr to combat climate change, December 11, 2023
«Up to one-fifth of all crops worldwide are currently lost to pests, and this is expected to rise to 25 percent due to climate change. While non-chemical control methods can have some success in reducing crop losses, pesticides remain a necessary weapon in our fight against devastating crop losses and this will remain the case for the foreseeable future.»
Linda Field, professor at Rothamsted Research
AgroPages, 9 February 2023
«Everyone has a right to their own opinion, but not a right to their own science.»
Dr. Joachim von Braun, Chair of the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)
In a session at the UNFSS
If we want to produce more food within the planetary boundaries, this can only be achieved through higher productivity and increased crop yields. To achieve this, we need modern technology, which we should not close our minds to.
Matin Qaim, Agricultural economist at the University of Bonn
Handelsblatt, 31 March 2022
«If we deny facts, if we say that up is down and down is up, that left is right and right is left, we are obviously going to get lost. It's as simple as that, because science gives a direction. Science tells us what the facts are.»
Inger Andersen, Executive Director UN Environmental Program (UNEP)
UN News, 10 February 2021
«No, I smoke just enough that I hope I won't have to quit. According to Paracelsus, everything is poison, it just depends on the quantity.»
Katharina Prelicz-Huber, National Councillor, Grüne
Tages-Anzeiger, 28 January 2022
«Sometimes I have the feeling that a good engine oil is more important to us than a good salad oil.»
Cem Özdemir, German Minister of Agriculture and Food
foodaktuell, 28 December 2021
«Of course we found residues, that goes without saying. But they were only traces and not a health hazard.»
Christoph Spinner, Thurgau Canton Chemist
Thurgauer Zeitung, 31 December 2020
«We will not soon be able to feed ten billion people with an agriculture that used to feed one billion. What we need is not a romantic but a science-based agricultural turnaround.»
Matthias Berninger, Head of Sustainability Bayer AG
Bayer Presse DE, Twitter, 17 October 2020
«Plant protection is a technology that supports civilisation.»
Prof. Dr. Andreas von Tiedemann, Georg-August University Göttingen
Lecture at the CAS - Autumn Conference 2018 at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
«Breeding in itself is not natural.»
Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel, Director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biology
Forschung & Lehre, Issue 1/2017
