"If GM foods are safe, as the industry claims, then why the stubborn opposition to labeling?"

[Humanist_Activist]

66. Interesting, in the first claim, he gets a fact wrong...

for example, calling Glyphosate an endocrine disruptor, when it isn't:

http://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/glyphosate-417300_2015-06-29_txr0057175.pdf

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #999999 inset;"]E. Conclusions
The conclusion of the WoE evaluation is that glyphosate demonstrates no convincing evidence
of potential interaction with the estrogen, androgen or thyroid pathways in mammals or wildlife.

Also, isn't anyone alarmed that for some reason Organic fertilizer use data isn't collected at all? I mean, the SciAm article mentioned this as a problem and so did the article you noted as well.

As far as trying to refute the effectiveness or lack thereof of the organic pesticides, the website you link to attacks the funding for the study without attacking the conclusions or data of said study.

Actually, that's a problem with this article, it makes grandiose claims without references, such as this:

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #999999 inset;"]Perhaps the next time a consumer is contacted by a pollster on this topic, they/we should more properly say, “I buy organics because they don’t use the kinds of pesticides that create public and environmental health hazards, harm pollinators and other indicator species, make farmers and farmworkers sick, and/or persist for years in the environment accumulating up the food chain.”

Where is the evidence, cites and references about the various claims here that organic pesticides are less toxic to humans, the environment, and other species?

So Correction #1 is a bust.

Correction #2 is quite literally not a correction, but a rewording, there's no evidence that organically grown produce is healthier, both sides concede that.

Correction #3 has nothing to do with the claim the SciAm author made, instead either self-referencing their own criticisms of GM produce and pesticide use or attacking industrial farming methods in general, failing to note that many of those methods are used by certified organic farms as well. Also, they fail, yet again, to cite any references supporting their claims that organic pesticides and herbicides are less toxic that synthetic ones.

Correction #4 includes more self-referenced and unproven assertions.