Anti-agricultural biotech NGOs and activists raise a common and familiar set of fears in the campaign to get biotech foods restricted or banned. In a multi-part response, Michael Eisen, an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, comprehensively and dispassionately addresses those concerns.
View the original article here: GMOs: Gene transfer is neither unnatural nor dangerous
Part 1: GMOs: Gene transfer is neither unnatural nor dangerous
Michael Eisen | June 26, 2012
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