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USDA may compensate farmers for GM pollen contamination

• It's Genetically Modified
In a recent issue of Food Chemical News, USDA secretary Tom Vilsack laid out a set of instructions to his department’s new Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture. Vilsack told the committee to come up with a plan to compensate organic farmers whose crops had become contaminated with genetically modified genes due to pollen drift.

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What the hell?  Monsanto skates and we the taxpayers foot the bill?



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