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Michelle Miller, known as The Farm Babe, promotes GMOs and conventional farming practices on social media.

Vani Hari, The Food Babe, criticizes processed foods, GMOs, and pesticides, gaining a larger following than Miller.

The differing success of these influencers highlights the challenges of traditional food and agriculture industries in adapting to social media.

Michelle Miller stands in a field of corn, stalks stretching above her perfectly styled hair, holding a tiny microphone and addressing an audience online.

She was farming genetically modified corn in Iowa in 2017, she says, when a tornado hit. Now a social media influencer who goes by the name The Farm Babe , Miller says the wind knocked her corn flat on the ground. But in a feat of botanical

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