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Daniel Robert „Dan“ Glickman ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker . Zwischen 1977 und 1995 vertrat er den vierten Wahlbezirk des Bundesstaates Kansas im US-Repräsentantenhaus; von 1995 bis 2001 war er Landwirtschaftsminister der Vereinigten Staaten. Wikipedia

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Dan Glickman: Zitate auf Englisch

“What I saw generically on the pro-biotech side was the attitude that the technology was good and that it was almost immoral to say that it wasn't good because it was going to solve the problems of the human race and feed the hungry and clothe the naked. And there was a lot of money that had been invested in this, and if you're against it, you're Luddites, you're stupid. There was rhetoric like that even here in this department. You felt like you were almost an alien, disloyal, by trying to present an open-minded view on some of the issues being raised. So I pretty much spouted the rhetoric that everybody else around here spouted; it was written into my speeches.”

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Dan Glickman

Unidentified speech as outgoing Secretary of Agriculture, c. January 2001
Quoted in [Bill, Lambrecht, http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Dan-Glickman-Outgoing.htm, Outgoing Secretary Says Agency's Top Issue Is Genetically Modified Food, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 25 January 2001, 2007-01-17]