GM Crops Not Increasing Yields, Despite Industry Claims
Monday, July 1, 2013 3:48
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Since the mid-1990’s the biotech industry, led by Monsanto, has been proclaiming that their genetically-modified varieties would increase crop yields and help solve the rising worldwide demand for food. A noble goal, although these PR sound bites have been overshadowed by aggressive patent policing, millions in Congressional lobbying to keep those patent laws in place, requirements to buy new seed every year, shutting down small farmers and seed savers, and striking the fear of lawsuits into non-GMO farmers.
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