In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
Nina FedoroffWe need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
Nina FedoroffCivilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
Nina FedoroffIf everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
Nina Fedoroff