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Get ready for the next wave of GMOs

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They were led by José Bové , a left-wing activist famous for his skirmishes with the law and his tremendous moustache. The GMOs he destroyed were created by inserting genes from other organisms — say a stretch of DNA that confers resistance to a particular herbicide — into a plant’s genome. Gene-edited crops already exist.

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Get ready for the next wave of GMOs

AGreenLiving

They were led by José Bové , a left-wing activist famous for his skirmishes with the law and his tremendous moustache. The GMOs he destroyed were created by inserting genes from other organisms — say a stretch of DNA that confers resistance to a particular herbicide — into a plant’s genome. Gene-edited crops already exist.

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Get ready for the next wave of GMOs

AGreenLiving

They were led by José Bové , a left-wing activist famous for his skirmishes with the law and his tremendous moustache. The GMOs he destroyed were created by inserting genes from other organisms — say a stretch of DNA that confers resistance to a particular herbicide — into a plant’s genome. Gene-edited crops already exist.

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