When I saw this advertisement for a t-shirt to wear in May's March Against Monsanto, I could not believe my eyes. Here was a shirt being sold to those opposed to transgenic (GMO) technologies that basically says that the wearer has no idea about what they are so upset about. In a way, sad, but in a way pure rhetorical gold. I can't make this stuff up. Proudly proclaim that you know nothing about technology you are rallying against! A t-shirt that brazenly screams that the wearer is ignorant about biotechnology. So what's wrong with this picture? Let's start at the bottom and work our way up! 1. Tomato. There are no commercial GMO tomatoes. Oops. 2. Syringe. That's not how trangenics are made, and it is simply an iconic scare tactic of the anti-GM movement. Again, proudly shows complete ignorance of the process. 3. Nobody is a science experiment from GM, any more than they are from eating anything else. Again, a bold statement tha
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