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- Bayer’s modified soil microbes could trigger a genetically engineered doomsday for agriculture
- If you don’t like the toxic pollution from industrial agriculture’s synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, Bayer and its partner Ginkgo Bioworks have a solution
- They say they’re going to swap out some of the old fossil-fuel-based agrochemicals for genetically engineered microbes
- The uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered microbes could contaminate soil on such a vast scale that it could be the end of farming!
Bayer’s modified soil microbes could trigger a genetically engineered doomsday for agriculture. Is that what Bayer wants? If you don’t like the toxic pollution from industrial agriculture’s synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, Bayer and its partner Ginkgo Bioworks have a solution for you.
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