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<i>Food safety and quality standards are highly variable across countries...</i>

Right -- you don't want to feed starving people with the food they would ordinarily be eating, especially when you've got shiploads of US-grown GMO corn to unload.

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I highly doubt it was his idea. The mystery is why Cheney let him go ahead with it.

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Frank Lucas (R, Oklahoma)

Come on, people -- what part of "R, Oklahoma" don't you understand?

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Go ahead -- bourbon is gluten-free.

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Martha Stewart?

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in all fairness, how is Monsanto supposed to make shitloads of money if we procure locally instead of serving them Frankencorn?

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gives a whole new meaning to cow tipping...

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Do something more efficiently instead of just using the program as an excuse for government subsidies? Next thing you know, the stock market will be hitting record highs! Obviously Obama = socialist.

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I'm not sure you are aware of which parts are relevant in this situation...

Sex need not stop a good rant-a-thon.

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I'm not sure if either of them could stop obsessing about themselves long enough to even notice that there's another person in the room

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Point: zippy

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More OT The Minnesota House of Representatives passed legalized gay marriage today. (79 to 55) Monday it is highly likely the Senate will pass the same bill and the Governor has said he will sign it. The Gay Agenda(TM) works!!!!11!

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pert much- it started as yet another front in the cold war (see also: the havoc we caused in South America in our zeal to fight the commies) and these days lots o people get a piece of that that sweet taxpayer pie on its way by. Cut a check to the local farmers market in Kenya instead and a whole bunch of people are gonna be P.O'd

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does this mean we have to pony up money for <strike> the FNG</strike> DDM, too?

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If this is symphonic/operatic metal, then yes. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7WrKfw6n0">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Are you a new poster? If so, Editrix must not hate you.

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