This article explains the political, agricultural, biological, and business implications of the story with equal depth and enterprise. The story could have used more context, since this is only one of many other comparable stories in the same vein.

.This article seems more biased than usual on this web site. I am not sure who is right or wrong and this story does not add to good information.

with facts and figures and links to sources, the article points out the major contributions from the same industry in front of the new republican chairman's congressional agriculture committee, and the resulting decision favorable to the industry, by the usda. this has been a very controversial issue with contradictory facts and figures now apparently resolved by the department. the general arguments are here: what's missing are some specific information and source cases from each side of the controversy to help readers understand what may be at stake .

Could do better at evaluating the various claims made, but does a very good job of stating many of the problems. Could have included the probable loss of Japanese and European markets for organic crops when contaminated, as well as the use of antibiotic-resistant genes as markers, thus showing the potential for increasing the already HUGE problem with antibiotic resistance. Not as good as it could be at convincing the scientifically naive reader, but still a very good story.