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The well-publicized push to label products that contain GMOs. . .has had the unexpected advantage of revealing a more complete picture of the controversial biotechnology.
Consumers who have followed the labeling debate are now more likely to know that the majority of corn and soy fed to farm animals is GMO, that insulin made to treat diabetics is GMO, that scientists have engineered GMO mosquitoes to combat the Zika virus, and that . . .โmost cheese (90 percent) is made with GMO rennet. . .
This suite of GMO facts might seem peripheral to public opinion. But Iโd wager that itโs having an unexpected impact. The primary reason anti-labeling advocates typically oppose GMO labeling is. . . . that two decades of activist demonization of GMOs as โfrankenfoodโโโโall in contrast to the available evidence supporting GMO safetyโโโis difficult to shake. . . .
Still, itโs time for those who oppose labeling not only to acknowledge the looming inevitability of labeling laws . . . but to celebrate how the long solidified opposition to GMOs is starting to soften, and even switch sides.
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More than any other agricultural writer, [Mother Jonesโ Tom Philpottโ] has lambasted theย evident evilsย of GMOs. . . . He has reserved particular ire for Monsanto, a company that epitomizes the agribusiness of which heโs so critical.
But on April 20, you could findย a photographย of Philpott . . .ย opposite Robb Fraley, Monsantoโs chief technology officer. . .ย smiling together in the halls of Monsantoโs global research and development headquarters in suburban St. Louis. Beneath the picture was Philpottโs perfectly fair mindedโโโone might say cautiously optimisticโโโarticle on Monsantoโs role in the future of food and agriculture.ย . . .
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