[blix]

> That's like demonizing computer manufacturers because computers are inextricably linked to cybercrime.

Is the vast majority of computer use for the explicit and sole purpose of cybercrime? If so, this is news to me. It's more like demonizing the dark web since its main function is to facilitate crime.

The primary purpose of GMOs is to increase herbicide usage. This isn't some philosophical argument; this is how GMOs are actually used. How can you separate a tool from it's primary usage? To me, an honest discussion of GMOs requires one to leave abstract notions behind and consider the context of GMOs in modern agriculture. This context is overwhelmingly centered around herbicides. If you remove herbicide-resistant GMOs for the discussion, there's barely a point in having it all because what remains is so insignificant.

[Bjartr]

If investment into non herbicide related GMO crops is avoided by investors, universities, etc. because the social optics are poor because GMOs have a bad rap, we are missing out on progress we might otherwise obtain.

Again, is choosing to be fully accurate and saying "herbicide resistant crops" instead of "GMOs" really so much of a problem? How the crops gained that resistance is besides the point.