One of the easiest and most helpful estate planning tools to use is also the easiest to mess up. All too often IRA owners commit costly errors on their beneficiary form that negate their best intentions, leaving loved ones out in the cold.
This was also around the time that the first debate over GMO health risks began to emerge. In 1976, biotechnology became commercialized, allowing companies to experiment with inserting genes from one species into another â whether for medicinal, food, or chemical reasons. 1982.
But thatâs changingâand a ballot question this fall in California has the potential to radically alter the GE landscape throughout the rest of the United States. On 6 November 2012 California voters will decide whether foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) must be labeled.ccording to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), a crop biotechnology advocacy organization, farmers in 29 countries grew nearly 400 million acres of commercial GE crops in 2011, an 8% increase from the previous year.