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Blame factory farming, not organic food

Nature Biotechnology volume 25, page 165 (2007)Cite this article

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Clearly, editorials provide a journal the opportunity to express opinions. But your October editorial “Why silence is not an option” (Nat. Biotechnol. 24, 1177, 2006) goes too far by misrepresenting some basic facts.

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