After years of acceptance, the United States is now experiencing true movement to restrict the use of genetically engineered organisms in agriculture. There are dozens of bills in state legislatures to restrict or label GM food, Washington is voting on a labeling initiative, and now the island of Kauai has approved a measure that will rigorously regulate biotech crops growing on the island.
Kauai matters because it’s the first place in the U.S. to pass a tough GM regulation that could actually affect the industry. Other places have cracked down harder on GM plants — Mendocino County, Calif., banned them, for instance — but they don’t matter to biotech the way Kauai does.
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