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Maple Leaf Foods CEO: ‘A global food strategy must meet the needs of the many, not just the affluent few’

| | June 12, 2013
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Blanket opposition to genetically modified crops is “a morally unacceptable position to take on the basis of unsubstantiated suspicions and fears”, according to the boss of Toronto-based firm Maple Leaf Foods.

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