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SD Agriculture Needs to Help Explain GMO’s

SD Agriculture Needs to Help Explain GMO’s

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A number of large food companies will soon begin reporting if their products contain ingredients from genetically modified plants like corn and soybeans. The GMO debate has been focused because of a law passed in Vermont that takes effect on July first.
Congress has yet to find a compromise that would head off that state law.

South Dakota State University President, Dr. Barry Dunn says medicine has been working with human genetics for years with little protest….

Dunn says agriculture needs to find a similar story….

Dunn says agriculture has to do a better job of explaining the benefits of GMO’s to consumers……

Dunn says they will develop a food plot on campus in Brookings as a visual demonstration.

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