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I'm all in favour of plant breeding for better yields. Our local economy is based on the work of schoolchildren who competed to select the very best wheat seeds for a tiny test plot. Direct genetic tinkering, however, is well known for reducing soy output by 10%, and high-fructose corn is widely implicated in health problems. The pollen from these varieties is destroying the option to farm organically. There is no more organic canola, for instance.
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