CSPAN Washington This Week September 24, 2011
cost of bringing developing new crops trains, we could not afford to bring the new ones to market. it cost at this point about $100 million to bring one crop to market, which is pretty expensive. that is why we only have big crops, not many genetically modified for its and vegetables because only the big crops have enough profit margin in them to support the genetic modification. let me underscore the bottom line that a farmer can plant anything he/she wants to plant. the reason they migrate to gm crops is that their profits go up and costs go down. a previous caller asked if they we...