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Environment & Energy

Nihil

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6. Not to anyone who pays attention - hence the need for GM proponents to spew FUD smokescreens.

Reply to niyad (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 08:05 AM

Aug 2013

Even most of the pro-GM boosters who accuse any opposition of being "Luddites" are only
too aware that the concerns are genuine.

It's a numbers game but unfortunately the equation is slanted away from the side of honesty:

Pro-GM minority + Pro-Profit_at_all_costs + Apathetic_ignorant_masses > Concerned_minority

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