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Originally Posted by octothorp
As well, GMO moves need to be done with economics in mind. If introduction of certain GMO crops causes international markets (particularly the EU and China) to disappear, that's a huge problem. Roundup-ready alfalfa is becoming a huge headache in the US, because China has banned its import in even trace amounts, and the GMO variety seems to get into a lot of other fields via cross-pollination. We can't get too far ahead of our export market consumers when it comes to GMO production.
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Science will eventually win out on this, and other countries will accept GMO products.
There are no real dangers to Humans in consuming GMOs. There are 3 real dangers that have come out of GMOs
1) patent laws putting Farmers firmly under the heels of Big Seed.
2) lack of genetic diversity removing natural adaptability to disease or changing environment.
3) over use of pesticides/herbicides, (effectively harming genetic diversity by killing off unadapted/non-GMO plants or harming wildlife/pollinator populations with poisons)
Realistically there is no good reason for China or Europe to worry about Canada having any of those problems, and the actual food they would be buying would be no different.
But for all of the reasons above there is still vary good reason to move against the mass blanket adoption of GMO crops, and I doubt the conservatives would have the will to move in that directions. What would be equally unfortunate would be a government that ignores advances in technology and completely bans something that could help billions people and can improve the fundamental economics of a vital industry.