Greening GMO’s The European Court of Justice correctly lumped all genetic modification technologies into one heap and now the technology is being carefully spun into representing a tool for environmental protection. Even the evil herbicide glyphosate is finally being touted for enabling the use of no-till and cover crops to protect soils and water quality. An herbicide resistant wheat in Argentina developed with CRISPR is being called non-GMO. With pest resistance built into plants, it is conventional non-GMO plants that are causing the increase in pesticide usage. Producing enough food on less land while preserving biodiversity cannot be achieved with organic, but it can with super-plants developed via genetic modification. It is as...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.