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The ban stayed in place until 2019, when the government allowed the importation of GM cotton engineered to be resistant against a pest called the cotton bollworm.—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023 These varieties contain a bacterial protein called Bt that kills pests such as the cotton bollworm without harming beneficial insects and spiders.—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2014
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