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US Farmers Allege Deception By Agrochemical Giant

February 18, 2016 Clara Herzberg, www.truth-out.org , , ,
By Clara Herzberg for Truthout - From Indiana to Louisiana, a movement among thousands of corn farmers in the United States is trying to hold a Swiss GMO agribusiness giant to account for willful deceit and is making steady progress in court. According to these lawsuits - which may soon become class action - Syngenta, one of the world's largest agrochemical companies, deliberately misled small farmers into thinking that the genetically modified Viptera corn it was pushing on them would be approved for export to China.

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