If you’re a liberal you have to find a way to generate panic so you can use that panic to get money and/or political power. Global warming was already staked out. Peak oil is about over. Overpopulation is not sufficiently panic inducing. The war on women doesn’t have any moneymaking potential. So, it’s on to made up stuff. Genetically modified plants are a perfect vehicle.
I’ve seen just as many on the right displaying fanatical opposition to GM foods, often as some kind of NWO one-world-government plot to subjugate the food supply and thereby force dependence on government in cahoots with Monsanto and other supra-national corporations. Big banking and Agenda 21 usually get tied into it somewhere too.
I agree. It seems like many decades that I’ve been reading articles by panic-mongers about the food we eat killing us. I keep waiting for news stories about people dropping dead or getting horrible diseases from eating gm food and other types of altered food. Maybe some of them have a point, but as usual over-exaggeration of the dangers seems to be the mo of most of the foodie panic-mongers.