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Scary species, good for men, people go to the fields to dig for half a million / day

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Scary species, good for men, people go to the fields to dig for half a million / day

 

People in Quang Nam (Viet Nam) bring hoes to the cassava fields to catch underground beetle larvae and sell them for 50,000-60,000 VND per kilogram. ($1=25,000 VND).

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More foods will be gene-edited than you think.

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More foods will be gene-edited than you think.

 

"Some argue that gene-edited foods are safer than genetically modified (GM) foods. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) specified in 2018 that most genetically edited foods do not need to be regulated. However, are these foods, which will increasingly appear on the table, really risk-free?"

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