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Because there is a backlash against GMO food based on panicky minority opinion that is proving just as damaging as the anti-vaccine movement. In the early 2000s, Zambia was hit by a devastating famine, so the U.S. sent humanitarian aid in the form of genetically modified grain. The countrys president refused to accept the aid, calling it poison, and had all 500 tons of it locked away, solely on the advice of organizations like Greenpeace whod briefed the government on the dangers posed by eating the grain. Never mind that theres never been a single documented case of harm from genetically modified food, which puts it up there with the level of risk posed by werewolves, or that the medical risks of eating nothing are fairly well known. Read more: cracked/article_21341_5-ways-every-conspiracy-theory-makes-world-worse.html#ixzz37gHXVf1E
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:27:07 +0000

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