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GMOs 2.0: Is Synthetic Biology Heading to a Food or Drink Near You?

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This article was originally published in Huffington Post. By Stacy Malkan Our culture is smitten with the notion that technology can save us – or at least create great business opportunities! Cargill, for example, is working on a new food technology that mimics stevia, a sugar substitute derived from plant leaves, for the “exploding sports … GMOs 2.0: Is Synthetic Biology Heading to a Food or Drink Near You?

Is Cargill’s new stevia plant the ‘farm’ of the future?

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The international food conglomerate Cargill is  ramping up commercial-scale production  of its genetically engineered sweetener, EverSweet, in a new $50 million production facility that began operating this week in Blair, Nebraska. The plant will “be producing enough EverSweet to sweeten many millions of bottles/cans of soft drinks or servings of yogurt each month,” according to … Is Cargill’s new stevia plant the ‘farm’ of the future?