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? - SearchQuotes

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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?

Jeremy Rifkin

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