Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been making genetically modified organisms into something of a national issue of late:
It's not a radical idea to tell people what's in the food they're eating. 64 countries label GMOs. Why can't the US? pic.twitter.com/flfzCT22MP
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 29, 2016
It's not complicated. People want to know the quality of the food they're eating and what they're giving to their kids. #JustLabelIt
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 1, 2016
Monsanto's goal is to deny states the right to label GMOs. If we don't stop them, they may just succeed. Watch: https://t.co/PE3DnEjBOM
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) July 1, 2016
The implication here is clear enough, GMO foods are of substandard quality and consumers must be warned accordingly.
What is the scientific consensus, though? You can go through loads of studies over at Smilodon’s Retreat. For the more tl;dr-minded among us (which is almost everyone) we have a single page summary of the expert consensus on both climate change and GMOs, courtesy of Dan Ryder:
Quite a few people are happy to quote from the first column while conscientiously ignoring the second one.
Anyone care to guess why?
