11-29-2013, 08:53 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
Truth is relative. How about showing some balanced results and letting people decide for themselves whether to indulge in potentially "dangerous" activities?
Who says the results to date have not been balanced? A lack of credible negative results doesn't necessarily indicate a conspiracy to repress the negative. It can actually indicate a lack of negative results.
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A good product which benefits society should be able to stand on its own merits.
I think in large part it has already. GMO crops haven't become dominant in so many areas of agriculture in only 20 years because they're bad and horrible, but in fact because they're not.
The resistance to them, absent any factual basis, has far more to do with overall "anti-science" sentiments than anything else.
And since the opponents to science-based policies and practices base their arguments on emotion in place of reason, and on faith in place of fact, I think it's appropriate to tag their resistance as a religious war.