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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by frostmatthew on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @09:20AM (#9452056)
> I guess the 'anti-scientific folk' in Switzerland, Australia, Austria, China, India, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, and Russia who have banned GMO crops altogether are beyond the pale.

Governments banning something doesn't mean it's either a) based on science or b) the right thing to do.

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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by federico3 on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @09:49AM (#9452291)
14 governments banning GMs (while not banning vaccines and other scares) suggests that dismissing the anti-GM crowd as 'anti-scientific folk' might be unreasonable.
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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by frostmatthew on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @11:14AM (#9452923)
> dismissing the anti-GM crowd as 'anti-scientific folk' might be unreasonable

As I pointed out in another comment[1] there's a wide gap between "what the public thinks and what scientists know" regarding GMOs[2]. Having an opinion that is the opposite to scientific consensus is by definition anti-scientific.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451873

[2] http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/theres-a-gap-between-what...

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