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  • For example, wasteful water leakage in agriculture can be addressed most quickly and effectively by better valves and pipes rather than genetically-modified crop varieties that require less water.

    Mark Tercek: Smart Resource Management: Good for Nature, People and Business Mark Tercek 2012

  • DuPont Co. said Tuesday that it is indefinitely delaying the commercial launch of the genetically-modified soybean seed at the center of a long-running court battle with archrival Monsanto Co.

    DuPont Delays Seed in Soybean Spat Scott Kilman 2011

  • When you factor in the logistics that have come into play to merely getting that cereal to a grocery store, or packaging it in cardboard boxes decorated with a four-color printing process, or the trucks that actually haul the cereal, or the massive factories full of wonderful machines that actually process, sort and bag the cereal, or the farms which grow the genetically-modified corn and wheat which is harvested by monstrous tractors...

    Joe Peacock: Cereal Bags, Part 2: Using Tools, Evolution, "First World Problems" And Your Mom Joe Peacock 2011

  • Then I heard about genetically-modified organisms or GMOs and became very alarmed.

    Why I Garden Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • When you factor in the logistics that have come into play to merely getting that cereal to a grocery store, or packaging it in cardboard boxes decorated with a four-color printing process, or the trucks that actually haul the cereal, or the massive factories full of wonderful machines that actually process, sort and bag the cereal, or the farms which grow the genetically-modified corn and wheat which is harvested by monstrous tractors...

    Joe Peacock: Cereal Bags, Part 2: Using Tools, Evolution, "First World Problems" And Your Mom Joe Peacock 2011

  • When you factor in the logistics that have come into play to merely getting that cereal to a grocery store, or packaging it in cardboard boxes decorated with a four-color printing process, or the trucks that actually haul the cereal, or the massive factories full of wonderful machines that actually process, sort and bag the cereal, or the farms which grow the genetically-modified corn and wheat which is harvested by monstrous tractors...

    Joe Peacock: Cereal Bags, Part 2: Using Tools, Evolution, "First World Problems" And Your Mom Joe Peacock 2011

  • The report, which was carried in the leftist Argentinian newspaper Página 12, showed that from 2000 to 2009, following the expansion of genetically-modified soy and rice crops in the region, the childhood cancer rate tripled in La Leonesa and the rate of birth defects increased nearly fourfold over the entire province.

    Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say 2011

  • Back in the United States, Don Huber, an emeritus professor of plant pathology at Purdue University, found that genetically-modified crops used in conjunction with Roundup contain a bacteria that may cause animal miscarriages.

    Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say 2011

  • Agriculture Department, ending years of regulatory limbo, Friday cleared the commercial planting of a genetically-modified corn made by Syngenta AG that is opposed by U.S. grain millers.

    USDA Clears Syngenta Biotech Corn Opposed by Grain Millers Scott Kilman 2011

  • When you factor in the logistics that have come into play to merely getting that cereal to a grocery store, or packaging it in cardboard boxes decorated with a four-color printing process, or the trucks that actually haul the cereal, or the massive factories full of wonderful machines that actually process, sort and bag the cereal, or the farms which grow the genetically-modified corn and wheat which is harvested by monstrous tractors...

    Joe Peacock: Cereal Bags, Part 2: Using Tools, Evolution, "First World Problems" And Your Mom Joe Peacock 2011

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