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Biotech Firm Raises Furor With Rice Plan

A tiny biosciences company is developing a promising drug to fight diarrhea, a scourge among babies in the developing world, but it has made an astonishing number of powerful enemies because it grows the experimental drug in rice genetically engineered with a human gene.

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Ventria's $4 Million Pharma Rice Grant
Source: Wichita Eagle

Welcome to the Brave New World, not only are drugs being grown in the food crops, taxpayers are helping to fund fields of foods that produce drugs. Looks like we the people will swallow anything!

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