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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 03:07 PM
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Gov't Kept Mum on Unapproved GM Corn Sales = RW Kool-Aid
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 03:08 PM by xultar
Gov't Kept Mum on Unapproved GM Corn Sales
(Knight Ridder) - The federal government kept it secret for three months that genetically modified corn seed was sold accidentally to some U.S. farms for four years and may have gotten into the American food supply. The accidental use of unapproved seed became public when the scientific journal Nature published a story about it Tuesday...

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050322/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_farm_modifiedcorn_wa_1

OK People, it isn't Kool-Aid. It's the GM corn that's got a grip on the Red states!
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 03:13 PM
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1. How is that NOT a form of ILLEGAL concealment?
Surely to gawd, national security can't be asserted on this, yet another, cover-up. :grr:
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 03:16 PM
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2. Wasn't there some 'news' a few months back
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 03:23 PM by SimpleTrend
about how easy it would be for 'terrorists' to target the food supply?

On edit, I found the quote I read:

"I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said in a December speech as he was stepping down from the post.
More...
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 03:21 PM
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3. They've got so much undercover I'm not shocked we aren't under
24/7 darkness.
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