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Old 01-18-2011, 12:54 PM
EDBSO EDBSO is offline
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Originally Posted by ForcedInduction View Post
, the only effect is reduced MPG and consumption of food that could be used to feed starving countries.

the only effect is reduced MPG and consumption of food that could be used to feed us and starving countries at a lower cost and then there are the tax subsidies that we all pay. So where is the problem? Almost forgot about the billions in bribes to politicians to keep this all going.


Corn uses scarce and expensive farm lands. "proprietary organism" can be put on arid mid west otherwise unusable lands.
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