... non-meat products, he or she is facing the effects of American farmers and their agriculture products. In short, American farmers" are responsible for supplying American's with their daily bread baskets. As president George W. Bush stated in a recent forum pertaining to America's nutritional needs, "Food ... of Canada's canola crop this year will be genetically modified. American crops will also rely largely upon genetically modified crops--90 million acres worth--nearly a third of the country's total farm acreage. Americans now face the question of how far agriculture practices can and ...

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... crops, such as a potato (Hodgsm 96). According to Lynn Messina, "larger investments in the genetic modification of some crops could open a new avenue and escape from poverty and malnutrition for hundreds of millions of citizens in Asia, Africa, and Latin America" (152). Along with improving human health, farmers and the environment are benefiting from biotechnology. By supporting biotechnology, farmers" ... genetically modified crops that are used in food production. Before a genetically modified crop is released on the shelves in markets, years of laboratory testing and controlled fiel...

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... that is rapidly changing the American food chain. This year, the fourth year that genetically altered seed has been on the market, some 45 million acres of American farmland have been planted with biotech crops, most of it corn, soybeans, cotton and potatoes that have been engineered to either produce ... pick out which foods do and do not contain these New Leafs. The protestors of the New Leaf Superiors should not be protesting until they know for sure that they have not already eaten a genetically engineered potato. As of now, they don't know, and it may be a long time until ... survi...

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... -market approval and were not sold to the general public. The second generation of genetically engineered crops began in 1995 when they became commercially used. By 1999 over 70 million acres of genetically engineered crops were being planted annually. Examples of improvements made by genetic engineering are insect resistant corn and potatoes and virus resistant squash. (McCullum, 4) Critics of ... they were. He was unaware that his canola crops were genetically modified by cross-pollination with genetically engineered crops produced by Monsanto and Aventis. When his crops tested positive...

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