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Archive for March, 1999

Biotech companies love to talk about feeding the world…

Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: March 25th, 1999

“Biotech companies love to talk about feeding the world, but their products must pay off in the market, which measures dollar demand, not human need. The effort has gone into the potato that makes McDonald’s fries, not the yam eaten by folks with no cash. The corn that feeds America’s pigs and chickens, not the dryland millet that feeds Africa’s [...]
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