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Article: Sowing TECHNOLOGY.(environmental dangers of plant genetic engineering)
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- Sierra
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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the ecological argument against genetic engineering down on the farm
drive the Nebraskan backroads in July and you will encounter one of the great technological wonders of the modern world: thousands of acres of corn extending to the vanishing point in all directions across the table-flat landscape. It appears as lush and perfect a stand of vegetation as you will find anywhere on Earth--almost every plant, millions of them, the same height, the same deep shade of green, free of blemish, emerging straight and strong from clean, weed-free soil, with every cell of every plant bearing genetically engineered doom for the over-adventurous worm.
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