6,000 studies show GMO corn is environmentally safe and healthy for consumers

[Binkie The Clown]

134. I've always been anti-GMO for one very good reason.

That reason: "I've always been anti-GMO."

I'm beginning to feel like the anti-vaccine folks, which is a good enough reason for me to reconsider my opinion instead of doubling down on my stubborn dogma.

When I try to track down the exact source of my anti-GMO attitude it's about as substantive as the anti-vaccine movement too. What it boils down to is that I once read something somewhere that scared me. Perhaps I've been manipulated by fear to take the position I've taken? Am I really that susceptible to FUD propaganda? Perhaps I am.

At any rate, I'm going to take the radical step of reconsidering the evidence instead of knee-jerking to my default position. After all, how could I, in good conscience, lecture Trump supporters for ignoring facts if I'm willing to ignore facts myself in order to cling to my preferred belief system? Not to mention that being anti-GMO makes me morally superior (or so I've been told to believe), so if I'm going to be pure and righteous I need to be anti-GMO. Well, those are not good enough "reasons" for me any more.

Don't count on me to automatically become pro-GMO, but I'm going to look at the facts instead of knee-jerking my way to a position that could well be wrong. Perhaps I will adopt a more nuanced position, instead of the stock "I'm right and you're wrong" position usually taken on this and many other subjects.

But in the end, I will at least be able to say that I gave the facts a fair hearing. Even those facts that may not be to my liking.