USDA has withdrawn from its Web site a report by its Foreign Agricultural Service touting the potential benefits of genetically engineered crops to organic agriculture. Headlined "The Unexplored Potential of Organic-Biotech Production," the May 26 FAS report by Rome-based Cyndi Barmore called the divide between organics and biotechnology an artificial construct maintained by ideology rather than science. "Allowing producers to gain organic certification for biotech crops could encourage the development of a new type of environmentally sustainable agricultural production with greater benefits for the consumer," she wrote.
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