Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, my legislation which I will be bringing to this House hopefully sometime soon, called the Real Solutions to World Hunger Act of 2002, offers new initiatives and protections to help developing nations resolve their hunger concerns. First, to protect developing nations, genetically engineered exports are restricted to those already approved in the U.S. and approved by the importing nation. Second, creation of an international research fund for sustainable agricultural research. Third, U.S. prohibition on any intervention in a developing nation's effort to mandatorily license a genetically engineered crop. Fourth, establishing the Sustainable Agriculture Trust Fund with a small tax on a biotechnology company's profits. This trust fund will fund the activities in this bill. To understand how this bill before us, the one we are going to be voting on today, will fail to help anyone except for the biotechnology companies, I think we should examine our own Nation, our own farming practices and our domestic hunger challenges. The United States of America, the wealthiest Nation in the world, grows substantial amounts of genetically engineered foods. Our farmers plant approximately 100 million acres a year in genetically engineered crops. However, in this great wealthy Nation of ours, plenty of families go hungry every day.”