Texting for turkeys; financing Postmates; tougher potatoes
Butterball has been handling calls from desperate Thanksgiving cooks for three decades, but now it is branching out.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved commercial planting of two types of potatoes that are genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine.
The approval for J.R. Simplot Co.’s potatoes next will be reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency.
The company said the potatoes contain only potato genes, and that the resistance to the pathogen comes from an Argentinian variety of potato that naturally produced a defense.
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