Real threat to food security is ginned-up panic over GMOs

There has been a lot of commotion about GMO crops in the press this summer. It amazes me that there are so many folks trying to gin up panic over GMO crops. These individuals seem to get their information mostly from the Internet and not from documented research or even the hands-on experience most of us have had with these crops for 15 years now. The real problem with GMO crops in my opinion is just plain ignorance on the basics of biology, genetics or more specifically, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

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