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Hi
I have found two articles from agricultural biotechnology that you may find useful... here is the url for one from the popular press:
http://www.vegsource.com/articles/gmo_feed_myth.htm
and another from peer-reviewed literature:
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/altieri.html
These are certainly two interesting articles, with similar focus but some glaring differences in approach. I hope you managed to read through all of both of them and gain some understanding of the heady issue of biotechnology in agriculture. This is a topic that has recently been of utmost importance to many biologists, both those involved in biotech and those in conservation and environmental science.
In answer to your specific questions, I will try to give you some input about each one separately.
a) It struck me right away that Altieri's paper was far ...
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