GMO Labeling

[Midnight Rambler]

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Originally posted by Rene Siracusa

If MONSANTO and the other GMO chemical companies were REALLY interested in solving the problem of world hunger, they would be developing crops that had a higher nutrient content, so that, for example, one head of lettuce could provide all the needed vitamins and minerals for a family of 4.

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But this is the problem with the anti-GMO campaigners. They target all GMOs under the presumption that it's the fact of being GMO that's bad. There are, of course, side-effect problems with some of the GMOs that have been developed by companies like Monsanto - Bt corn creating resistance in pests (a much more serious problem than pollen killing caterpillars, which got more attention), Roundup-Ready crops leading to increased herbicide use, GM salmon contaminating wild populations.

But in my experience, very few anti-GMO people actually look at them scientifically. Instead, they lump Rainbow papayas and golden rice in with everything else. And that makes it incredibly difficult for GMOs that are for world hunger to get through.