Anti-GMO campaigners take no issue with new crops created by soaking seeds or tissues in toxic chemicals or subjecting them to high fields of radiation to cause random damage and genetic changes. No opposition, no labels wanted, no protesters, no fear. But when changes are done precisely in a clean laboratory, hysteria breaks loose.
View the original article here: Huh? Activists embrace new foods mutated with toxic chemicals and radiation, reject safe GMOs
Huh? Activists embrace new foods mutated with toxic chemicals and radiation, reject safe GMOs
Kevin Folta | July 9, 2012
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