The anti-GMO movement is nothing but a pseudoscientific scam. [View all]

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Stop shoving "Seralini! A personal anecdote! I read some cranky blog saying so!" in my face to prove your case that GMO's are evil and should have a scarlet letter/should be banned. Smithsonian Magazine: Some Brands Are Labeling Products “GMO-free” Even if They Don’t Have Genes:

It seems unneccessary for salt to be advertised as “GMO-free.” After all, it’s awfully hard to genetically modify salt because it has no genes. Nevertheless, last year the Austin, Texas-based Evolution Salt Co. added a label declaring its products to be GMO-free.

As the company’s owner, Hayden Nasir, tells Ilan Brat for The Wall Street Journal, if his salt is shelved next to one that “doesn’t say non-GMO on it, chances are somebody will bypass that.”

After decades of love affairs with processed food, many Americans are becoming more and more concerned with what goes into their meals. But despite there being little to no scientific evidence indicating that genetically modified organisms are bad for your health, the number of companies paying to have their food certified as GMO-free is skyrocketing, whether they need it or not, Brat writes.

In part, this is all about marketing. For some companies, like Chipotle, Ben & Jerry’s and Cheerios, declaring their food to be GMO-free could be seen as a good way to get a foothold in a rapidly growing market. Sales of products labeled as non-GMO have grown 30 percent to $1.1 billion in the last year alone, Brat writes.

It's so damn pathetic how this pseudoscience has infested the left. GMOphobia is at the same dishonesty level as The Rush Limbaugh Show, creationism, and Bigfoot sightings.