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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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