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Food/Ag Feathers, beaver butt excretions and CHEMICALS!! in your food? Yeah, but it’s not what you think. Bill Gates weighs in on GMOs and their potential to feed to world.

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Food/Ag

Feathers, beaver butt excretions and CHEMICALS!! in your food? Yeah, but it's not what you think.

Bill Gates weighs in on GMOs and their potential to feed to world.


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Kevin Bonham is a Curriculum Fellow in the Microbiology and Immunobiology department at Harvard Medical school. He received his PhD from Harvard, where he studied how the cells of the immune system detect the presence of infectious microbes. Find him on Google+, Reddit.

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