Environment

April 16, 2012 12:27 pm

Are you eating a mutant meal?

Breaking down genetically modified food

Do you think that you would recognize genetically modified food if you saw them? Roughly 70 per cent of the processed food sold in Canada contains at least one GM ingredient.

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