The Non-GMO Project is a lie. The whole anti-GMO movement is a luddite scheme co-opted as a marketing ploy for the so-called "natural" foods industry.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/23/non-gmo-is-a-marketing-scam-nothing-more/ https://octodon.social/media/35jQB6U-d_L0_9s0Y7E
I'm curious to see if I get more pushback on this from the more liberal Mastodon community than I do from the more conservative birdsite.
But then maybe people here are just plain smarter & better informed.
@pzmyers Eh, I mean, I think you're about 80% right. There's no proven health risks from GMOs, and no serious reason to expect there to be. And the certification is scammy, and there are the same IP issues with hybrid seeds. 1/?
@pzmyers
But! GMO technology is something that could be used for reasonable purposes in a better society than ours. Under capitalism, it is used to benefit capitalists, not customers, or society in general. It's used to make things like Round-Up-Ready crops (capital-intensive and maybe environmentally harmful), or BT corn (harmful to wild, harmless lepidopterans).
So, it's a "neutral" technology, but technology under capitalism is never neutral. 2/2
@Laurelai @pzmyers @gcupc related to this discussion: I am quite sick of people stubbornly not being open to discussing the potential positives of genetic engineering. Exhibit A: https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/questions/6271/is-there-a-sustainable-agriculture-certification-that-sees-gmos-as-potentially-b
@bstacey @jk @gcupc @pzmyers alternately:
GENE MODS #knuckletats
@gcupc I agree with that. In general we need a deeper understanding of the changes people make to the world than "will it make me money?"