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Environmental Risks of GE Foods
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 GE crops pose a range of serious environmental impacts... and if a problem is discovered after crops have been introduced, correcting a mistake may prove impossible MORE>

Health Risks of GE Foods
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 Food and color additives undergo strict testing outlined by the National Research Council to ensure safety, and products are accurately labeled. Yet genetically engineered crops, which have genes added to them that produce new proteins, are exempted from pre-market testing... Under intense lobbying by Monsanto and other corporations MORE>
More False Promises of GE
(pdf 120k)		 Through advertisements and news stories, corporations portray genetically engineered crops as an alternative to toxic pesticides, but in reality, these crops are just another case of “business as usual” for biotechnology/pesticide companies and do not represent a shift towards a more sustainable type of agriculture. MORE>


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