The Dubious Virtue of Apostasy
If there is not much new on GM agriculture or even on the dynamics of defection, we are not left with much except a deceptive broadside against anti-GMO activism, authenticated only by Lynas’s special standing.
Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is a Senior Fellow at the World Food Center Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy, University of California-Davis. Entine is author of the books Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People (Grand Central Publishing, 2007) and Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It (Public Affairs, 2001). Follow @JonEntine on Twitter
If there is not much new on GM agriculture or even on the dynamics of defection, we are not left with much except a deceptive broadside against anti-GMO activism, authenticated only by Lynas’s special standing.
The concept of GMOs as a “category” of food to be embraced or rejected, in whole or in part, is silly from a science point of view. The term “GMOs” is both meaningless and misleading. GM is a process. Each GM crop is unique.