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And, in case you have not heard of the organic crops have been turned into GMOs.
term “Terminator Gene”, it is a gene that Or that we can no longer plant seeds that
is present in GMOs which allows them were indigenous to us because a foreign seed
to corrupt the genes in organic crops and company has bought up all the rights to the
turn them into GMOs. This means that a seeds. We must not allow that to happen.
farm with GMO crops can contaminate the Watch video
organic farm across the road through the
process of pollination, and the harvest from
this contaminated farm will be the property
of the owners of the GMO patent. This is a
massive evil that we need to pay attention
to. Imagine waking up in ten years’ time
only to discover that all our indigenous
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