Could 2018 mark the end of the anti-GMO movement?

Marc Brazeau | Genetic Literacy Project | February 5, 2018

For people in the middle of the debates around biotech in agriculture (which tellingly don’t extend into debates around biotech in medicine), the discussion tends to have a Groundhog’s Day character to it, as the same zombie talking points continue to require a bullet to the head on nearly any given day. Zoom out a bit however and you can see that the shape of the battlefield has shifted dramatically. It’s worth reviewing what has changed over the last few years.

Past is prologue

“What has changed?” food policy writer Beth Hoffman asked Stacey Malkin, who had run the campaign in California for a mandatory GMO label.

That is a Twitter exchange from 2013 in a piece where I tried to take stock of what had changed in the discussion between 2009 when the editorial board of Scientific American had called industry control over biotech research “chilling” and 2013 when the editorial board came out against mandatory GMO food labels..........To Read More.....

My Take - Then end of the GMO crusade was inevitable from the start.  The same was true of every other greenie irrational, misanthropic and morally defective agenda they've pushed in the past, andy they're currently pushing, and any they'll push in the future.   Truth very patiently waits on the horizon, and that's the one thing they can't overcome - Reality! 

Few of any of these green loons aren't farmers, and they're not starving.  A great deal of the rest of the world worries about tomorrow's meal and a great many people of the world are farmers.  Many of them subsistence farmers, and GMO technology is the number one answer to the world's hungry mouths. 

You can't have a free society if they're starving. But that's what the green movement is all about: Less people, and what they're doing is no less criminal than what Stalin and Mao did to the people of their nations.  Starved them to death for idological purposes. 

This exposure of these irrational movements can be directly linked to the internet and the pajamahadeen, who deserve a vote of thanks.  If the internet had been in existence during the cry for the ban on DDT or the demand for passage of the Montreal Protocol - both would have gone the way of the Kyoto Accords.  Into the ash heap of history.  

You're welcome.