Bio-tech Expansion Plans For Washington County
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Updated: 7:05 AM Jul 25, 2008
Bio-tech Expansion Plans For Washington County
Crops are not the only things sprouting up In one eastern Carolina. county...new business opportunities are as well.
Posted: 6:13 AM Jul 25, 2008
Reporter: Lynnette Taylor
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The growing season in Washington County produced the largest crop of rice ever in North Carolina, and because of that, the company responsible for it plans to expand.

Ventria Bio-science announced an expansion of their Washington County Bio-tech Plant.

Currently the company rent a warehouse space at the Vernon James Research And Extension Center located five miles outside of Plymouth on Highway 64.

They hope to expand their rice nursery and breeding program, in which local landowners lease their land.


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Posted by: To NO GMO's Location: From Bio-Tech Major on Jul 25, 2008 at 12:03 PM

You do not realize that unless you grow it yourself that you foods are GMO'd. You do not have to be a Bio-Tech. major to know this. Although I am a bio-tech major so I knew it anyway.
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Posted by: NO GMOs Location: Greenville on Jul 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM

Yes. Some biotech co's do make the "genetically modified organisms" that are included in our food products. The other day my son wondered if cheese grew on trees, I told him no, but it may one day. Be careful what you put in your body.
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Posted by: Anonymous on Jul 25, 2008 at 09:02 AM

Bio-tech company, are they the ones that grow the genetically altered foods?
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