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Imagine if a nation who had a significantly worse obesity epidemic going on that was way worse than in the US. And they were pushing to sell seeds to us.

It's kind of like a hobo who is next to death trying to sell you some health pills while insisting that his poor health is not caused by the health pills he has been taking all the time.




I'm very skeptical of Monsanto and their business practices, but that reasoning does not hold water.


My grandmother gave me some advice years ago: "Never trust a skinny chef". If you're buying food to keep people from starving to death, wouldn't you trust the fat salesman to have good product?




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