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by CoffeePower 3671 days ago
The GMO debate really has nothing to do with modifying the crops genes, the great GMO question is whether the pesticides and herbicides those crops are then fumigated with are safe to eat.

Fortunately, people smarter than us are working on exactly that. There is a lot of ongoing research on these topics.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=pesticide+toxicity

http://www.organic-systems.org/journal/92/JOS_Volume-9_Numbe...

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>The GMO debate really has nothing to do with modifying the crops genes

Maybe for you. This makes a big (and stupid) assumption that agribusiness giants are working in your best interests. It also makes some smaller (also stupid) assumptions that agribusiness giants and scientists know what they are doing, are infallible, and never make mistakes.

Who is doing that assumption?