India’s Farmers Injecting Veggies With "Love Hormone"

Images: Times of India (AFP) and Channel News Asia It’s a vegetal plot fit for a bad zombie flick: desperate to make their produce look fresher, bigger and mature faster, some Indian farmers are injecting their veggies with hormones on the sly. The most commonly-used substance: oxytocin, a reproductive hormone found in mammals. Oxytocin acts primarily as a neurotransmitter in the brai… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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