Is President Trump pro-GMO?

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“We are streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting-edge biotechnology, setting free our farmers to innovate, thrive, and to grow,” Trump told a meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 8.

He’s pro-GMO? Sounds like it. KFC-loving Trump may have been referring to how, in November [2017], his administration scrapped USDA rules that would have regulated plants created through gene-editing tools like CRISPR.

Read full, original post: Trump Just Said “Biotechnology” for the First Time in 353 Days as President

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