The Grocery Store That’s Changing the Food System
Big news for people concerned about avoiding genetically modified organisms (GMOs): Whole Foods, the nation’s largest natural and organic foods retailer, has just announced that by 2018, all products sold in its stores must indicate whether they contain GMOs. Read more at Rodale.com
Farmers Who Plant Biotech Crops Grow Pesticide-Resistant Weeds
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2010 (ENS) – Weeds are developing resistance to the herbicide that genetically engineered crops are designed to tolerate, finds the first major assessment of how biotech crops are affecting all U.S. farmers, released today by the National Research Council. Since genetically engineered crops were introduced in 1996, at least nine species […]