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Hawaiian papaya, this
was almost wiped out by a virus, Ring Spot virus. Scientists some 20 years
ago made a Hawaiian papaya, that was resistant to the Ring Spot Virus and
now if you go anywhere in the U.S. and pick up a papaya, it almost certainly
is a GM papaya. It's not labeled as such though. Why? Because
the government decided it was going to be too dangerous when the farmers
protested, and it would wipe out the papaya industry. So what did the
government do? They decided well, we will grandfather papaya. It was done
so long ago we will pretend it's natural and it's only new stuff that has to
be labeled.
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