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10-15-09

The Seeds Of A Monsanto Short Play

While the public has little tolerance for artificially enhanced athletes, we sure do like our food super-sized.

Take a minute to think about the last meal or snack you ate. Did you bite into a giant orange juiced up like a big-league slugger, or maybe make an omelet with eggs the size of grapefruits? Odds are, whatever you've recently eaten, it was likely grown or grazed with engineered seed or growth hormone produced by Monsanto ( MON - news - people ), creator of agricultural biotechnologies that augment crop and cattle size.

Forbes Article by BetterTrades