Our story brought a number of comments, including this one from Odalberto Domingos Casonatto in Brazil. He wrote that in his town the population depends on agriculture and transgenic crops. He says it is true that such crops can have higher output with less cost, but added:
No one knows the consequences that will have on soil fertility and the human body. Only the future will tell us the truth about transgenic food.
Christian in France expressed a different concern, saying:
The big problem of the transgenic seeds is that they are the monopoly of big companies. The small farmers cannot reproduce any more seeds by themselves.
And Joom from Thailand wrote:
I don't care where the crops come from, natural plants or genetic engineering, as long as we can produce food enough for people.
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And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. I'm Bob Doughty.
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