GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD

The major biotech players and the industry shills in their pockets are quick to accuse those who oppose GMOs of being “anti-science.” We’re the Luddites, we’re told, not just standing in the way of progress, but morally equivalent to climate change deniers in obstructing the only possible path for feeding the world.

From the very beginning, however, there was pitiful little science in the rush to push GMO foods down the throat of the American public. The FDA suppressed the objections of genuine scientists who argued that the processes of genetic engineering and traditional breeding were different and thus entailed different risks. Official policy, developed without testing and in a matter of months, declared the opposite. GMOs were substantially equivalent and there was no need even to label them.

With the science on genetic engineering officially “settled,” monetization of the world’s food supply could get underway in earnest. Public funding for conventional breeding all but dried up as resources poured into new GE research and development.

The biotech industry hasn’t made it easy to add to the science on genetically engineered food. But it’s been more than twenty years now. The real science is coming in. On almost every criteria, the grand GMO experiment rates an F.
GMO technology has

• Failed to reduce pesticide use.
• Failed to increase agricultural yield
• Failed to reduce food prices
• Failed to address food scarcity
• Failed to provide economic benefits to small farmers
• Failed to conserve natural resources like water, soil, and biodiversity

While Big Ag, our government, and much of the media continue to operate as though the debate is over, GMO safety has NOT been

assured,  and there is NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS on GMO safety.