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7. Monsanto may be an evil corporation, but genetic modification is not.

It is science. It may be perverted by a horrible corporation, but the science behind genetic modification has underpinned agriculture since its beginning. All the food one eats today is genetically modified.

The two things, genetic modification and Monsanto, are as different as two things can be. One is something that has been going on since the birth of agriculture, the other is corporate excess.

Maybe the two are orthogonal. Genetic modification, a normal process, is being exploited by a corporation.

What are called GMOs these days is the product of a natural process. To malign it is to malign, and misunderstand, nature. All of what we eat is genetically modified. All of it. There is no qualitative or quantitative difference between what humans have been doing since the birth of agriculture and the science that has given birth to modern crops, like golden rice which fucking prevents kids from going fucking blind.

But then there are the idiots who see all genetic modification to be connected to evil Monsanto. Of course, they are wrong. And they are also wrong that genetic modification is anything new.

And yes, Monsanto is evil. But so is thoughtless anti-GMO. Science tells the difference. Trust the science.