Genetically Modified Crops Produce More Trouble Than Food


	Genetically Modified Crops Produce More Trouble Than Food

mbthorman

9-1-2007 1:52 PM

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business, environment, regulations, protest, gm crops

mbthorman says:

The large chemical companies vying for control of GM crops are running into an increasingly vocal people's protest against them. GM crops are impossible to control environmentally and threaten farmers with future disaster. No one has really tested these crops for long-term safety both to animals and to the environment.

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