Yikes... and yuck.
A California biotech company has gotten early USDA approval to create rice that's been genetically-modified with the human genes that produce breast milk.
Are Frankenfoods and urban sprawl the future of environmentalism? Yes, according to Stewart Brand, one of the environmental movement's early pioneers who is ready to challenge a lot of our assumptions.
And here I thought pesticides and genetic food engineering were alarming enough. But it seems that Franken-food has an even scarier new sequel.
U.S. growers of genetically engineered crops could get a boost this week, when the World Trade Organization rules on a complaint from the Americans that Europe has been illegally placing restrictions on crop imports. According to a story in the New York Times, the WTO is expected to release a judgment this week, favoring the U.S.
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