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In case you haven’t been keeping track, virtually all corn, cotton, and soybeans (and sugar beets not on this graph) are genetically modified. Not only that, but they take up more than half of all cropland in the United States. And half the corn is used to fuel automobiles. Monoculture, control of the food supply, and lack of biodiversity, anyone? The post Genetic modification of basic food-and-fuel crops: basically all appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a surprise appearance at the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic meeting in London, Ont., this week. Emerging from behind a curtain, Ford took the stage to address a convention hall full of grain growers and wasted little time addressing the issue that led many conversations at the annual industry.
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Roger Reaves forged the most astounding farm life of modern times. Row crops to moonshine to marijuana to cocaine, he was the highest paid narco-pilot in history.
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