Re: OT: RE: [CH] question for a big brain

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I usually stay out the GMO debates since my opinion has been well
documented  but one of my students gave an excellent example of irony the
other day. 
The ag industry is having a problem with Starlink volunteer plants coming
up in corn fields. Farmers have been asked to either switch over to
soybeans (on the theory that they will somehow then be able to go inand
yank out the offending Starlink) or use a special herbicide that will kill
off only the Starlink plants and not the rest of the corn field.
So the farmers planted a crop that was bioengineered to not need a
chemical but now will need to buy another chemical to erdicate that very
crop.
Susan
The Chile Woman



On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Inagaddadavida, Baby wrote:

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