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10. meanwhile the US government is subsidising GMO corn to at about $8 bil this year alone

Tue Jan 13, 2015, 08:21 AM

Jan 2015

A bumper crop, again, has driven prices below the cost of production so...taxpayers will kick in $8 bil so that the GMO industry does not collapse and can do it all again next season. Insane.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-20/farmers-may-reap-subsidy-boom-on-record-crops.html

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