Truth About Trade & Technology - My favorite Things Or What�s in the biotech pipeline?
Truth About Trade & Technology - My favorite Things Or What�s in the biotech pipeline?

My favorite Things Or What’s in the biotech pipeline?

by: Dean Kleckner, Chairman, Truth About Trade & Technology


Dean Kleckner


“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right,” said author Arthur C. Clarke in 1969. “But if he says that it is impossible it is almost certainly wrong.”

When Clarke wrote those words a generation ago, how many people thought that in the early years of the 21st century farmers would routinely plant genetically-enhanced crops? The thought certainly never entered my mind. Perhaps one of Clarke’s fellow science-fiction novelists predicted it.

Whatever the case, what once seemed impossible isn’t merely possible--it’s downright routine. Nothing is more ordinary than biotech food these days. We eat it every day. Earlier this year, a farmer somewhere in the world planted humanity’s one billionth acre of biotech crops. In the coming weeks, that acre will be harvested.

Biotechnology has transformed our lives. The transformation will not only continue but the pace of change will actually quicken. Here are a few of my favorite potential developments, culled from newspaper clippings in recent months:

Weeds that detect land mines
The soybean club for men
Healthy tobacco
Plants vs. pollution
Medical milk
Vaccines

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