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GM crops' record shows safety

Agbioworld
Robert Wager, Times Colonist (Victoria, Canada)
June 18, 2007

Excerpt…

Re: "Activists sound alarm over sterile zombie seeds," June 13.

The ETC Group has long claimed biotechnology represents a threat to the public.

The problem is that exactly none of its dire predictions about biotechnology in general and genetically modified (GM) food specifically have come true.

The world is rapidly incorporating GM crops into agriculture systems and those who continue to push unsubstantiated fear are being ignored….

…GM crops are certainly not the bogeyman some would have us believe.

Full article at Agbioworld. The original article can be found at Canada.com.

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