Genetic engineering ‘monster’ exists only in our minds | Opinion - The News Tribune
The fight against GMO foods is a fight of emotion against science, an effort to deny that everything we eat is the product of human ingenuity and the purposeful manipulation of nature, that science has brought great advances in the production of food to the tremendous benefit of mankind, and that we had better not stop.
Martina Newell-McLoughlin of the University of California at Davis, testified at the Legislature’s hearing on I-522.
“The potential negative impact of this going forward, if we abandon the scientific method, we are going to slow or destroy the advances that will reduce the use of these unsafe chemicals and these less-safe agricultural practices in this country, and we limit the potential for improved nutrition, improved quality, improved sustainability and improved ability to produce food – to ensure food security in a world where we have a massive increase in population and dwindling resources.”
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