GM crops in the media

A popular restaurant chain Chipotle set off a media maelstrom in the USA with an announcement on April 2015 that they would cook with only non-GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredients (Food With Integrity, 2015). Chipotle said that its decision was based on the “questions about the safety of GMO,” claiming that biotech companies had not evaluated “long-term effects” of these products, and that “more independent studies are needed.” Chipotle also claimed that GMOs damage the environment, citing one questionable study that biotech crops had led to increased use of herbicide and pesticide on the farm, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.