Famine fear won't sway minds on GM crops
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 13, 2014 - A sack-hauling time traveler from the 21st century lands in an Irish potato field in 1849, just before a terrible famine, and asks: If you thought genetically modified potatoes could avert late blight disease, spare a million countrymen from starvation and keep another million from emigrating off the Emerald Isle, would you plant these newfangled spuds? Fast forward to the Internet Age, wh ... more

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