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arcane1

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3. That is my one and only concern about GM crops:

Reply to undeterred (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 04:23 PM

Jan 2014

"Ownership would be transferred to companies, and that would actually meant the life of the people would be controlled by few interest groups and big companies - like Monsanto".

Forcing people into contracts, forbidding them from saving seeds for next year, eventually designing crops whose seeds are sterile, etc.

It's sick.

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