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If I was to guess someone who grew a sample field for Monsanto was careless and didn't completely clean out his wagon. It either got mixed with regular wheat at a seed plant or at the grain elevator where it was later used for seed.



If anyone wants to see the nuts and bolts of how this gets done, I've been enjoying Millennial Farmer's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpsfshTfr8


What about animal vectors like birds?


Not impossible but doubtful. Every single time I know of that an investigation has been done it's traced to human carelessness.

I'm unable to find a link online but around fifteen years ago a farmer accidentally let a very small amount of some experimental GMO soybeans he was growing for a seed company as a test get into a truck headed to the local elevator.

Routine government testing resulted in a very large bin of soybeans getting purchased and destroyed. The financial hit caused the seed company to go bankrupt.


Human carelessness like allowing this crap in the first place?




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