GMO Skepti-Forum has begun featuring essays by readers on the GMO controversy. We’re going to be featuring some of them on the GLP. Michael Fest, an installation and maintenance technician for fuel storage and dispensing equipment, offers his take:
I stumbled upon the GMO Skepti-Forum on g+ many months ago when it was in it’s infancy. Until that time, I had no idea what a GMO was. However, I became curious. I soon discovered that I had been eating GM foods for a significant portion of my life and since so many people had such vocal opinions on why I shouldn’t be eating them I decided to pay more attention to the conversation about them. What I discovered was a disparity of opinion based upon the kind of misinformation and emotionally charged rhetoric that is prevalent on such topics and what seemed to me to be sound and reasonable evidence. At this point I decided to look further into the subject.
A lot of brilliant people work every day in their respective fields of interest doing things that improve the lives of us all. I am not one of them. I am an average Joe. My perspective of GMOs in society is based on the arguments I have observed and the realization that each of us “average Joes” should learn how to evaluate the information that supports those arguments.
Read the full, original article: Michael A. Fest’s 500 Words | An average Joe on GMOs.
