India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.