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Originally Posted by The Fonz
TBQH, I don't understand the anti-GMO movement. What are the cons of GMO crops?
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It's probably the same motivation that drives the anti-vaccination movement or the anti-AGW movement. FUD sown by an agenda. Most people are honest in their positions, it's just that human's natural tenancy is to selectively find things rationalize our positions rather than form our positions out of rationality; it's just the way our brain works.
What gets me is how someone can take an anti-GMO position (or even a blanket pro-GMO position).
GMO isn't a single thing, it's a process.
Being anti-GMO is like being anti-Farming. There are some framing practices that I'm sure are harmful, but that doesn't mean ALL farming is harmful.
I mean I can genetically alter corn to produce nitroglycerin to make explosive ears of corn and the deaths in the produce isle and on roadside stands are bad, but that doesn't mean the process of genetically altering corn is bad.
Things are much more complex than a simple GMO is bad/good.