Kim slaps down GMO ban

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There have been farmers who have tried to sue for "chemical trespass" but as far as I know, no one has prevailed so far against the deep pockets of the big multi-national corporations. This topic hits close to home for me: I grew up in Southern Indiana in the 60s and 70s and watched many farmers in my community lose their family farms when they (and virtually every other corn farmer in the Midwest) got hit with a corn rust that the commonly grown patented hybrids had no resistance to. Almost the entire corn crop was lost for several years running and many farmers were bankrupted.

My big fear with GMOs is the same as my fear about all forms of mono crop farming: diversity is a farmer's friend and a lack of diversity is the friend of pathogens.

Carol