GM Plants Gone Wild

Three incidents in the US involving genetically modified plants have caused concern about lack of regulations (or lack of enforcement). The incidents include an experimental rice being mixed in other rice for human consumption, an experimental bent-grass “escaping” and a failure to research the environmental impact of growing plants to produce pharmaceuticals in Hawaii.

When Genetically Modified Plants Go Wild from The Christian Science Monitor

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 2:57 PM on September 6, 2006

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