Source: Cookson Beecher, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 7/13/12
It was a battle over agricultural biotechnology that didn't happen -- at least not in the House Agriculture Committee's July 11 markup of its version of the proposed new Farm Bill.
After a long day of discussing, and then voting on, more than 100 proposed amendments, the wearied-looking legislators finished the markup without addressing some controversial biotech riders tucked into Title X: Horticulture.
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