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Genetically Engineered Food
"The genetic engineering of plants and animals is looming as one of the greatest and most intractable environmental challenges of the 21st Century. Already, this novel technology has invaded our grocery stores and our kitchen pantries by fundamentally altering some of our most important staple food crops. Read More

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    Genetically engineered (GE) plants are created by splicing foreign genetic material into plant genomes, creating new organisms that could never arise in nature. The most common form of gene-splicing is quite similar to the process of viral infection.
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Fast, cheap tracking technique can ensure an animal is certified clone-free, scientists say. Did... read more

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Less than a dozen years after Dolly the sheep became the world's first cloned mammal, grocers and... read more