Who's Lined Up Against GMOs?
    By Hank Campbell | June 25th 2012 06:55 PM | 8 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
    For science credibility about biology, who means more?

    For GMOs
    Against GMOs
    US National Academy of Sciences
    PETA
     
    UN World Health Organization
    		 
    Sierra Club
     
    US Department of Agriculture
    		 
    Friends of the Earth
     
    US Food and Drug Administration
    		 
    Union of Concerned Scientists
     
    US Environmental Protection Agency
    		 
    Environmental Working Group
     
    American Medical Association
    		 
    Center for Food Safety
     
    UN Food and Agriculture Organization
    		 
     
    Chief Scientific Adviser for Europe
    		 


    Friends do not let friends get their science from political science majors working at activist groups. Obviously the list is not complete.  Thousands of other scientists could be added in, but that would simply be overkill.

    H/T Alex Berezow, RealClearScience

    Comments

    The question is not who means more it's who spent the most dollars. $$$$$$$$ speak

    Anonymous (not verified) | 06/26/12 | 09:38 AM
    Hank
    So the AMA and the EPA and the UN are all trying to outspend PETA and Sierra Club to kill the world?  An interesting conjecture, but unlikely.
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    Hank Campbell | 06/26/12 | 10:22 AM
    Excuse me, but as a PhD Chemist I think I have a good handle on science and I am opposed to GMO and base my opposition on the Science. A list as presented in this post, especially since all the US Goverment agencies that you list are known to be beholden to industry and have a well documented history proving that when regulation of things are not in the interest of corporations they ignore the science. Hank, this is just stupid, it doesn't represent the facts, the science or even a logical well thought out argument in support of GMOs. How about you read some independent research and try again or are you just a political pundent hack? I am betting on the latter. You can start by reading " the world according to Monsanto" and "the merchants of doubt" two books that clearly demonstrate with citations how full of crap you actually are. Your rant doesn't qualify as science ether.

    Marc Hutton (not verified) | 06/26/12 | 16:07 PM
    Hank
     all the US Goverment agencies that you list are known to be beholden to industry 
    Crackpot condition: yellow.  So your degree in chemistry trumps tens of thousands of biologists?  
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    Hank Campbell | 06/26/12 | 16:11 PM
    Gerhard Adam
    BTW ... I'm protesting that you didn't put my name under the Center for Food Safety.  What!?!  I'm not good enough?  :)
    Gerhard Adam | 06/26/12 | 16:57 PM
    Hank
    You've done too much research to be included in that grouping.
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    Hank Campbell | 06/26/12 | 17:12 PM
    Gerhard Adam
    Well, now I have to respond to that response just so I can see my name in print again :)
    Gerhard Adam | 06/26/12 | 17:16 PM
    Gerhard Adam
    Excuse me, but as a PhD Chemist I think I have a good handle on science and I am opposed to GMO and base my opposition on the Science.
    Ok ... since you completely failed to actually provide any science links [and no I will not read those books].  I want to see some peer-reviewed publications listed that argue the point. 

    Personally I'm opposed to GMO's.  I have a concern regarding potential downstream biological impacts regarding herbicide/pesticide resistance.  Primarily I'm opposed for economic/political reasons.  I don't think there's anything in the science to suggest or demonstrate a problem as it stands.
    Gerhard Adam | 06/26/12 | 16:26 PM