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Fourteen senators are urging the Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) to maintain the classification of the potato as a vegetable. This comes after reports that a joint advisory committee is examining the possibility of treating starchy vegetables and grains as interchangeable. The senators have written a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra…

The first genetically engineered or biotech food products were released on the market for the first time in 1994. Consumers received them fairly well, and since then more production intensified, such that between 1997 and 2010, the total surface area of land cultivated with GMOs had increased by a factor of 87. In 2011, biotech […]

Just like you can catch a cold from a virus so can other animals, as well as insects. But they can catch more than just a cold. Some viruses are dangerous for the pests but they are not of any danger to humans or other animals. The proverbial worm in the apple, the codling […]