Anti-GMO Activism in China- Exploiting Resident Fear
The anti-GMO movement is corrupt in that it does not change minds with hard evidence, it changes them with fear. It uses the most powerfully motivating emotion to drive an intellectually bankrupt agenda. In the West, what are our biggest fears? We don't worry about where our next meal is coming from, the well being of our farming industries, or if everyone has enough to eat. We worry about our personal health, about obesity, degenerative disease, or cancer. We worry about increasing prevalence of disorders like autism, allergies, asthma, Alzheimer's disease. These are the fears in the industrialized world. Knowing this, opponents of biotechnology will play off of those fears. Look at their rhetoric. Transgenic technologies cause every problem known to man. As you can see, we never had any of these problems before the use of GM foods. Stay hot Jeff! from Genetic Roulette China is home to 1.2 billion people and growing. They grow plenty of GM cotton,