Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Reason Magazine on GMO Safety

This is a decent article -- Why Do These Well-Fed Anti-Science Activists Oppose Safe, Cheap Food For Poor People? Although the title is the kind of cheap shot I more often see in liberal journalism.

Jon Entine of the Genetic Literacy Project responds: "We've eaten about 7 trillion meals in the 18 years since GMOs first came on the market. There's not one documented instance of someone getting so much as a sniffle."

Given all the fear from media and activists, you might be surprised to learn that most serious scientists agree with him. "There have been about 2,000 studies," says Entine, and "there is no evidence of human harm in a major peer-reviewed journal."

Nature is terrible at feeding people, and genetically modified foods have been a safe and effective way of escaping nature’s cruelty.