GMO woo being used to pile on pro-science Democrats

[wyldwolf]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025195414

[Warpy]

1. Not quite, it's more a way to pile on the Clintons and other Third Way/Wall Street

Democrats as being more concerned with Monsanto's continued profitability than with the health of the electorate.

However, you'd think they'd want actual evidence that GMO crops are harming people directly.

Some people in the bowels of universities are studying that right now.

[Orrex]

2. The vocal anti-GMO sentiment bugs me profoundly.

It's about on par with climate change denialism or creation science.

Yowza.

[Archae]

3. Like I said in another thread...

The right-wingers have a fit if science contradicts their Bible or the Heritage Institute.

Left-wingers have a fit if science contradicts what hysterics at "Natural News" or whale.to says.

[Orrex]

4. You hear a lot about "freedom of choice" in these debates

It frequently pops up in anti-GMO talk as well as in discussions of "alternative" "medicine."

"All we want is the freedom to choose," they insist. "Why do you want to deny us the freedom to choose?"

Of course, that's a straw man 100% of the time, but it shows up as a would-be trump card again and again and again.

[Archae]

5. I noticed that especially...

In this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12312730

That bullshit movie "Dallas Buyer's Club" seems to have inspired this bill.

[LeftishBrit]

6. Actually both Natural News and whale.to are very RW; especially the latter

Some left-wingers support them (and thereby ally themselves with the Right) but it's a small, if vocal, minority.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. I actually agree with you on this one Mr. Wolf. And by the way so did the late Senator from South

Dakota, George McGovern. In his 2001 book, The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time - he strongly and passionately argued in defense of the using of genetic science to attack global malnutrition.

In so much of the world most people have little to eat other than rice which in itself does not provide anywhere near adequate nutrition. Genetically modified rice can totally change that. Sure there are legitimate concerns about corporate control and some measures and international treaties should be enacted to deal with that. But there are legitimate concerns about negative affects on economy from tackling the issues of manmade global warming - but in both cases that is no reason to throw away science and actually hurt rather than help the world's least fortunate people.

[wyldwolf]

8. that, my old friend, is a fascinating piece of political trivia

One I will tuck away for future discussions.