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All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.

Michael Specter

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Michael Specter
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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