The decision comes on the heels of similar increases in minimum wages in other cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed to raise the countyâs minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, matching a move the Los Angeles City Council made in June.
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are food crops that have been engineered to increase yields, hardiness and resistance to herbicides. This genetic engineering creates plant, animal and bacteria food groups that do not occur in nature. GMOs, Health, Foods, Genetic engineering.
How Do GMOs Grow? GMO seeds are planted just like regular seeds, but some, called âterminator seeds,â are designed to produce only sterile seeds, which forces farmers to buy new seeds each planting season instead of saving seeds, a practice used by farmers around the world for thousands of years.