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By Michele Jacobson
If you live in America you cannot have escaped
the ongoing GMO debate. While many hold the strong opinion that genetically engineered foods are un- safe, unhealthy and downright evil, there are others who believe they are the way to feed an ever-growing world pop- ulation. This is, after all, America, and it is our right to have divergent points of view. However, over the past few years the public battle over genetically engineered food has become more confusing and contentious, with the biotech seed indus- try and Big Food on one side of the divide, and the 90% of Americans who want to see GMOs labeled on the other.
It could be argued that the “GMO issue“ has become less about the science, and more about the consum-
ers’ right to know what is in our food.
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