No two leaves are the same, and no two bushels of corn. What does this do to the corn-ratio theory of the profit rate? [From today's NY Times. Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/science/14FOOD.html] New Concerns Rise on Keeping Track of Modified Corn By Kurt Eichenwald Efforts to trace shipments of a bioengineered corn unapproved for human consumption have raised concern among food and grain industry officials that the corn - which has already been discovered in two brands of grocery products - may have made its way more widely into production channels for the nation's food supply. Millions of bushels of the unapproved corn, known as StarLink, have been delivered to more than 350 grain elevators around the country. Government and industry officials, uncertain how much of the corn has been properly segregated and identified, are now pushing the operators to test their supplies for evidence of contamination. ... "This whole system has been self-policing by the seed industry," one food company executive said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "And obviously it hasn't worked." [end of excerpt]
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