Hillary Clinton is Just Plain Wrong on GMOs

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21. That's 'cause the anti-GMO people don't have a mechanism for the GMO to cause harm.

Vaccines have known mechanisms of causing harm. We know something can go wrong, and kill people.

Nobody's managed to find a mechanism where GMOs could cause harm. Our digestive tract is pretty damn effective at reducing what we eat into its component parts, whether the food is GMO or not.

(ETA: That is independent of glyphosate or similar chemicals applied to the crops causing harm to the broader environment. But if your problem is glyphosate, ban glyphosate.)

Sure, there are people claiming "well, there could be some way they could hurt people". And I can come up with a way where your dishwasher could lead to a nuclear explosion. But until they actually produce a mechanism and demonstrate it is possible, there's as much reason to test GMOs for danger as testing dishwashers for risk of nuclear explosion.

Come up with a mechanism, and win a Nobel. Go down in history next to Pauling, Watson and Crick. Yet people keep failing to do so.

and they also allowed producers to prevent researchers from having access to their seeds unless they signed contracts limiting their right to publish results.

Nope. Want GMO seeds? Go to the grocery store. You can plant the seeds from the corn on the cob. Without signing any agreement. Wanna claim the US government would stop you? You do realize there are biologists in other countries, right?