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In the United States, for example, a Pew Research survey found that 67% of adults think that scientists lack a clear understanding about the health effects of genetically modified organisms.
Karl Popper modified this scheme in his seminal book The Open Society and Its Enemies , published in 1944.
Since the end of WWII, growth in GNP (modified slightly in the 1990s to become GDP) has been seen as the solution to almost every problem.
Knowledgeable participants expect the new retail model to be an integrated form of online and physical retail, each modified by the presence of the other.
Consider, for example, Europe’s agricultural subsidies and ban on genetically modified organisms, the abuse of antidumping rules in the United States, or inadequate protection of investors’ rights in developing countries.
Using online mapmaking tools, he created the first map of his village, Mbandaka, which he and his wife have modified more than 100,000 times since 2009.
By contrast, digital maps can be modified instantly, keeping locals apprised of developments in their area and helping visitors to feel like natives in unfamiliar places.
Nor is there any sign that any of these positions would be modified should Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger, become president.
Previous techniques left traces in the modified genomes, contributing, for example, to antibiotic resistance.
That is why the US Food and Drug Administration has ruled that such constructs do not need to be labeled as genetically modified organisms.
Such apples are already on the market, and are not considered genetically modified organisms.
Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Kenya have already modified their foreign policies, particularly their placement and selection of ambassadors, to focus on global economic and trade issues.
So, even if the eurozone’s structure is modified to achieve the desired level of fiscal discipline and balance, in its current highly decentralized structure, countries will continue to diverge in other important respects.
As this occurs, attitudes will once again be modified and opposition will dissipate.
The EU’s authorities in Brussels do not have a structured approach to international relations that is generally acceptable to them, or that can be scrutinized and modified by legitimately interested parties in politics, business, and civil society.
Science is increasingly used to support what are essentially public-policy decisions, particularly concerning new and complex technologies like genetically modified (GM) foods, novel chemicals, and contending energy infrastructures.
They may do so through protest, as the Ottoman calligraphers did, and as Irish opponents of genetically modified potatoes did in 2002, by marching in Dublin to express their opposition to the “death of good food.”
In response, the federal government introduced new restrictions on margarine, covering everything from labeling (as with genetically modified foods today), the use of artificial coloring, and interstate movement.
“Baysanto” alone would be the proprietor of almost every genetically modified plant on the planet.
The confluence of soil and weather “big data,” new agrotechnologies, genetically modified seeds, and new developments in agrochemistry will help these companies save money, protect natural resources, and maximize crop yields worldwide.
The Polish Communists did not intend to build democracy; their plan was to absorb moderate opposition groups into a partially modified political system.
One of the most difficult is the EU’s limitation of imports of genetically modified foods, which presents a major problem for US agriculture.
To take a simple example, more reasonable EU rules on genetically modified agricultural imports from North America, if translated with appropriately careful monitoring to Africa, could be a tremendous boon to African agriculture.
Failure to make any inroads on this score in the TTIP negotiations would almost certainly block genetically modified food in Africa.
But four political developments that have modified the international security agenda are likely to transform Chicago into a high-profile summit in its own right.
(“GMOs” are “genetically modified organisms,” itself a misleading and often unfairly stigmatized non-category, circumscribing a universe of organisms modified with the most modern and precise techniques of genetic engineering.)
The proposed legislation is full of excessive and impossible requirements, and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives may not be able to pass it, even in modified form.
Perhaps the most illogical and least sustainable aspect of organic farming in the long term is the exclusion of “genetically engineered” (also known as “genetically modified,” or GM) plants – but only those that were modified with the most precise techniques and predictable results.
So did Hitler’s Germany, though in greatly modified form.
Britons had their say during the summer, for example, on whether they want gene-spliced, or genetically modified (GM), products in their fields and food.
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