Advocates for the crop never entirely went away, however.

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Because of that, up to 30% of Britain's vegetable crop is never harvested.

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The UN says that 59% of the coca it detected in Colombia last year was in areas where the crop had never before been planted.

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Five years ago he uprooted his tomato, cabbage and onion plants to make room for baby corn seedlings - a crop he had never seen and equally would not eat - but with an export market secured, and his income guaranteed, he felt he had everything to gain.

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The tenets of photojournalism require that she never do more than crop, or perhaps tweak a color profile, of an image.

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He knows that big companies will probably never want to make GM versions of a minor crop like walnuts, but he bemoans the fact that protecting his trees without pesticides is expensive (he uses pheromones to lure the insects into mating with everything but one another).

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This movement will also show its face in the arrival of an increasingly utopian society, which toys with the same paradoxical lens by offering opportunities to be isolated in reveries of never before seen levels of personalization and customization, while also producing a new crop of specialized cults that renew our sense of belief and satisfy our need to belong (SoulCycle, Blueprint Cleanse, Girls).

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