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FIGHT!
Scientists say bioengineered foods are perfectly safe to eat.
Consumer groups call them Frankenfoods and say you eat
them at your peril. So who's right?
nation's capital.
By Mara Bovsun
ornell scientists are in
the middle of a national
food fight that's being
waged on fronts as wide-
ly scattered as New York
City restaurants, Vermont
ice cream factories, Califor-
nia tomato fields and the
broad avenues of the
The battle is over agricultural biotechnology—also
known as bioengineering, genetic engineering, gene
splicing and recombinant DNA.
The powerful technology in question was invented
in the late 1970s and allows scientists to tinker with
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