Farmers Skirt Rules on Gene-Altered Crops, Report Says
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 13:28
in Mathematics & Economics
As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules designed to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects.
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