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HopeHoops

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2. There are still roughly 4,000 natural varieties of corn in Central America.

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Fri Jan 20, 2012, 06:48 PM

Jan 2012

Unfortunately, the majority of them show at least traces of DNA from Monsanto GM corn. Since corn is wind-pollinated, there's not much you can do to prevent that from happening. Even if it was insect-pollinated, you'd still get infected. Yet another way we're killing the planet... (I hear the music from "Twilight Zone&quot

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