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| | Bestselling author and syndicated columnist Mike Fumento writes: "Why the Shredded Wheat?" |
 | | Another problem for Roundup Ready Wheat is that while, like all Roundup Ready crops, it's better for the environment by requiring less tilling of the land and reducing herbicide runoff, a farmer's first job is to make money. |
 | | Start with the traditional status of bread and hence wheat, mix in a cup of hysteria from the competing organic farmers and environmentalists, and you get farmer fear that all wheat products would be disparaged. |
 | | Monsanto's move was "a recognition, since wheat is closer to the human food chain, that it's a lightning-rod issue," Frank Mitsch, an analyst with Fulcrum Global Partners, told CBS MarketWatch. |
| www.fumento.com /biotech/wheat.html (791 words) |
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