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Old 04-27-2015, 03:09 PM   #213
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I'm parking this article link on GMO's here so I can find it again when I can get behind the paywall. It's basically a psychoanalysis of GMO opponents--the abstract is written in a rather snotty manner, but that's par for the course for these kinds of things: Fatal attraction: the intuitive appeal of GMO opposition

I don't oppose GMO's on principle, but I do think that they have been overrated as a solution to the world's food problems, and if not regulated as thoroughly as, say, drugs are regulated, they *could* potentially be dangerous. This part of the abstract has raised my blood pressure by maybe a few millimeters of mercury: "Studies demonstrate again and again that GM crops make a valuable contribution to the development of a sustainable type of agriculture." I can't wait to read the full article tomorrow to see what they cite in support of that statement. I'll have more to say then...

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