The increased use of the most unpredictable breeding method, not tested for safety, and labeled organic. That is what the anti gmo movement has accomplished do to sheer ignorance. Will they acknowledge their inconsistency and demonstrate honesty and integrity? I doubt it The U.S. National Academies of Science warned in 1989 and again in 2004 that regulating genetically modified crops while giving a pass to products of mutation breeding isn’t scientifically justified. “The NAS hits the nail on the head and I don’t think that any plant- or crop-scientist will disagree,” said Kevin M. Folta, a molecular geneticist and interim chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. “Mutation breeding is absolutely the least predictable.”
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