Are engineered foods evil?
@article{Freedman2013AreEF,
title={Are engineered foods evil?},
author={David H. Freedman},
journal={Scientific American},
year={2013},
volume={309 3},
pages={
80-5
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:32994342}
}The article discusses the debate over the safety of genetically modified (GM) crops. Topics include comments from agricultural and environmental economist at the University of California, Berkeley,…
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