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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That's very frequently not what they play on, though - they know people won't listen, so they hint around health and safety.
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That's also an issue. Mind you, I think most environmentalist orgs are trash, but the health concerns are very real.
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Sure, we should be careful, but there's a huge amount of evidence that the crops in use are safe.
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This sort of evidence is pointless. It takes one single reproducible instance of harm to disprove it. Health is longitudinal, GMOs young.
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And yet that one case has yet to happen..? That's all the proof we have of the safety of at least most things, isn't it?
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Yeah, except those things are centuries old. It's taken centuries for climate change to manifest visibly. So what?
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So we keep researching it until what exactly? We understand genetics 100%..?
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We just don't fuck ourselves over completely in the arrogant assumption that we understand what we've created. But we will anyway, so meh.
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If we're going to criticise this stuff, I think we should be very careful and explicit in what we're criticising.
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The environmental orgs typically do little more than fear mongering - it's counterproductive.