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Vanilla From A Petri Dish? Just Say "NO" To Genetically Engineered Vanilla!

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Natural vanilla flavor comes from a vanilla bean, right?

Maybe not for long -- a new genetically engineered ingredient, straight out of a petri dish, is about to enter our favorite foods, from ice cream to birthday cake. 

Synbio vanilla -- produced by a form of extreme genetic engineering called “synthetic biology” -- is stranger than science fiction, but regulators will still let food companies call it "natural".

So we're asking major ice cream companies like Haagen Dazs, Dreyer’s, Edy’s, Baskin Robbins and others not to use this experimental genetically engineered  vanilla in their products.

The truth is, this new vanilla doesn’t even come from a plant. Instead, it is made in labs using synthetic DNA and genetically engineered yeast which exists nowhere in nature.

There’s nothing "natural" about genetically engineered yeast that excretes vanilla flavoring. 

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