French anti-GM protesters target “hidden GMOs”

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A french farm. CREDIT: Flickr/Sir Hectimere

I have often marveled at the hypocrisy of anti-biotech crop activists who ignored hundreds of crop varieties produced using the relatively crude method of chemical or radiation mutagenesis. I had to ask:

If anti-biotechies are so afraid of genetic changes in their foods, why aren’t they out protesting varieties produced by means of mutation breeding?

Now French anti-biotech activists, filled with pent up antinomian fury over something or other, have now heeded my question. They are now destroying “hidden GMOs” – that is crop varieties produced by mutation breeding.

Read the full, original story here: French Anti-Biotech Protests Achieve A Glorious State of Sheer Lunacy

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