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GMO

Cultivating pura vida: Cartago launches festival to promote organic agriculture

The Tico Times - May 30, 2015

Fans of organic food rejoice, Cartago will host the first-ever Cultivating Pura Vida Festival this weekend to promote organic and GMO-free produce.

Business

Lawmakers begin discussions on bill that would place a moratorium on GMO crop production in Costa Rica

L. Arias - December 16, 2014

The bill calls for a moratorium on GMOs “to be maintained across the country until there is certainty and scientific consensus on the risks involved.”

Arts and Culture

Neil Young vows Starbucks boycott over GMOs

The Tico Times - November 18, 2014

NEW YORK – Rock icon Neil Young has pledged to stop drinking at Starbucks over an industry challenge to laws on genetically modified crops, but the coffee giant says the charges are false.