bioengineering

With the defeat of a federal law designed to prevent 50 individual states from penning their own GMO labeling laws, General Mills has decided to switch rather than fight. It's going to label all their foods that contain GMOs, everywhere — because it's too cumbersome to label, or not label its products, on a state-by-state basis.
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Impossible Foods, a bioengineered foods start-up, is aiming to achieve the impossible by creating imitation meat from plant material that looks, feels, tastes, and cooks like the real thing. The founder is Patrick Brown, MD, PhD, a Stanford University