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American farmers are feeling the effects of a concentrated seed industry. Seed options are diminishing while prices increase at historic rates. This report examines these troubling trends. […] Biotechnology lags behind traditional breeding and other methods in producing crops that have shown improved efficiency in nitrogen use, in order to address the problem of nitrogen fertiliser pollution. […] A study comparing the effects of three GM maize varieties (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in many parts of the world found to have shown negative effects on major organs of rats fed with the GM maize. […] Item 1
$2 million verdict against Bayer CropScience "Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use: The First Thirteen Years" November 2009 Author(s): Charles Benbrook, […] The price of GE corn, soybean, and cotton seed has risen sharply in recent years. Seed expenditures per acre are now cutting into net farm income, and transferring earnings that used to stay on the farm to the seed industry. […] |
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