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Re:Monsanto gives up fight for genetically modified plants i... by _pmf_ on Friday May 31, 2013 @01:32PM (#5799966)
> > ...among those [Europeans] who know what GMOs are, 59 percent of surveyed citizens believe they are unhealthy, with only 22 percent believing they are not.

It would be nice to correlate this with the percentage of people who are considering dihydrogen monoxide to be unhealthy.

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Re:Monsanto gives up fight for genetically modified plants i... by talmand on Friday May 31, 2013 @01:50PM (#5800088)
You shouldn't joke about that stuff. I know for a fact that every single creature that has ever consumed it later dies.
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Re:Monsanto gives up fight for genetically modified plants i... by mikeash on Friday May 31, 2013 @01:59PM (#5800149)
That's just plain wrong. Only about 90% of humans who have consumed it have died.
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Re:Monsanto gives up fight for genetically modified plants i... by freehunter on Friday May 31, 2013 @02:28PM (#5800396)
The rest are in various stages of dying.
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Re:Monsanto gives up fight for genetically modified plants i... by qb45 on Friday May 31, 2013 @01:46PM (#5800057)
The herbicides Mosanto's GM plants are resistant to aren't exactly Hâ‚‚O.
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