Bill Nye the Scinece Guy on GMOs

[Prophet 451]

19. OK, in response

1) We did see a decrease in vaccinations in the wake of the Wakefield study but that's now rebounded to a large extent. I couldn't find any decent stats on climate change, I'm afraid. On evolution, the most recent data I could find pegs support for evolution at around 50% (although that's probably due to ignorance, schools only started routinely teaching it about twenty years ago) and support for creationism/ID at 30-35% (again, ignorance is likely to be largely to blame there).

2) Not at all. Many things are required to be labeled. Here, a brief nutritional breakdown is required, for example. Also, I think you're neglecting the factor that will lead most people to accept GMOs: Laziness. If a consumer has to actively go out of his way to read labels and avoid GMO produce, the majority of consumers will simply not bother.

I am not anti-GMO (making no effort to avoid them, I probably eat them all the time), I am for putting more information in the hands of the consumer. If that information leads the consumer to avoid GMO produce, that suggests that the pro-GMO side are not managing to put their argument across properly.