11-30-2013, 09:46 AM
In another hundred years, today's biological research will be about as advanced as a flint arrowhead; we really have no idea whether anything is "safe".
Rob is probably much closer to the truth: profit above all else. The food industry has already adapted: so-called "natural" brands are merely clever astroturf (with nice margins, because not everyone can afford them). Meanwhile, plenty money for studies that "prove" GMO (or pesticides, or other factory farming techniques, take your pick) is "completely safe", as well as for lobbyists to keep that scary "GMO" label off the packaging.
Whether the Seralini study was flawed is actually a secondary issue: withdrawing the paper after hiring a former Monsanto person creates the impression of a conspiracy which is far more titillating than the acutal "science". (Case in point: I probably would never have heard of this research otherwise.)
GMOs are already "in the wild", and corporations are already moving to maximise their profit margin by any means necessary (even if "some people" have to die to keep the money flowing). All I want is some transparency; unfortunately these issues are much larger than the evil that corporations do.
Rob is probably much closer to the truth: profit above all else. The food industry has already adapted: so-called "natural" brands are merely clever astroturf (with nice margins, because not everyone can afford them). Meanwhile, plenty money for studies that "prove" GMO (or pesticides, or other factory farming techniques, take your pick) is "completely safe", as well as for lobbyists to keep that scary "GMO" label off the packaging.
Whether the Seralini study was flawed is actually a secondary issue: withdrawing the paper after hiring a former Monsanto person creates the impression of a conspiracy which is far more titillating than the acutal "science". (Case in point: I probably would never have heard of this research otherwise.)
GMOs are already "in the wild", and corporations are already moving to maximise their profit margin by any means necessary (even if "some people" have to die to keep the money flowing). All I want is some transparency; unfortunately these issues are much larger than the evil that corporations do.