What Is Fagra?

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Fagra was the first thing thatt we wanted to work on. We were able to make some fogra, you know, a fairly small amount. And people, people tried it. But even then, i think we started having these conversations about, ok, well, this is really interesting but are we going to really have an impact on the planet by working on something like fagra?

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