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SONG:
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
Find light in the beautiful sea
I choose to be happy
You and I, you and I
We're like diamonds in the sky
You're a shooting star I see
A vision of ecstasy
When you hold me, I'm alive
We're like diamonds in the sky
I knew that we'd become one right away
Oh, right away
At first sight I felt the energy of sun rays
I saw the life inside your eyes
So shine bright tonight, you and I
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
Eye to eye, so alive
We're beautiful like diamonds in the skyShine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
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ARTICLE:
A farmer in Oregon has found some genetically engineered wheat growing on his land. It's an unwelcome surprise, because this type of wheat has never been approved for commercial planting.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it is investigating, trying to find out how this wheat got there. The USDA says there's no risk to public health, but wheat exporters are worried about how their customers in Asia and Europe will react to this. And here is Dan Charles has more..
The biotech company Monsanto has genetically altered some of Americas biggest crop, so they can tolerate the weed-killer glyphosate, or Roundup. It did this with corn, soybeans, canola and cotton. But it did not do this with wheat. It made round up tolerant wheat in the laboratory and It carried out field trials of genetically engineered wheat in 16 different states.
But the country's wheat growers told the company that they did not want this novel genetic trait.
Steve Mercer, vice president of communications of US wheat associate which represent wheat growers and exporters. "We are not in favor of commercializing any biotech trait unless it's gone through regulatory approvals in the U.S. and in other countries,". Many countries are quite hostile to genetically engineered crops.
Monsanto dropped the wheat project. It never asked for government approval, and it ended its field trials of wheat in 2005.
Reference : http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187103955/gmo-wheat-found-in-oregon-field-howd-it-get-there