In the past week you’ve probably eaten crops that wouldn’t exist in nature, or that have evolved extra genes to reach freakish sizes. You’ve probably eaten “cloned” food and you may have even eaten plants whose ancestors were once deliberately blasted with radiation. And you could have bought all this without leaving the “organic” section of your local supermarket. Anti-GM dogma is obscuring the real debate over what level of genetic manipulation society deems acceptable.…
Farmers have modified our food for at least 10,000 years, why does it matter all of a sudden?
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