The Impossible Burger has the taste of beef, but with less environmental damage… but it's #GM/#GMO so FotE hate it: usat.ly/2xR45wv
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Many reasons to be skeptical of GMO are concordant with reasons to be concerned about climate change/environmentalism, though.
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The industrialists also assured us we had nothing to worry about, environmentally. I don't buy the evidence-of-absence-of-risk 'science'.
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There are a number of reasons to be concerned about GM, yes, but the environmental groups tend to unhelpfully blend them together.
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Unhelpful in what sense? It's an environmental issue in the same way as monocultures, but with more severe ramifications.
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My personal concern is throwing a group of technologies under the bus because we don't like who's developing them.
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I think we *may* need GM tech to feed everyone, especially in some of the scarier global warming scenarios.
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We -may-, but the risk of global starvation is also there - even in the absence of severe climate scenarios.
We don't understand the tech.
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And we are implementing it on a scale that implies we know exactly what we are doing, the health profile and the environmental implications.
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At the moment, in spite of the scale of use, we're not actually dependant upon the technology. Do we want to wait until we are?