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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND energy AND food and agriculture AND GMOs AND organic food
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Oil She Wrote
On canola oil |
Umbra Fisk |
24 May 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I recently saw "organic canola oil" on a salad dressing bottle. I looked up the origin of canola oil, and it looks like it is a genetic modification of rapeseed. I thought organic certification disallowed genetically modified foods. What's the scoop? Tom Grundy Nevada City, Calif. Dearest Tom, Have you noticed yet that May is food month here on floor 2B? Food and plants, in honor of spring -- and to counter last month' ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, food and agriculture, GMOs, organic food (all these topics) |
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