We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
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