There is hardly ever a technological advance made in any field that doesn't trigger protests.

This even extends to agriculture, a field driven by technology for centuries, but only now

are some seeing such efforts as counter to nature and fundamentally immoral.

Should we be trying to feed more people using less chemicals?

Or is such a pursuit truly as evil as the anti-GMO crowd makes it out to be?

Genetically modified organisms are coming up next, Unskeptoid.

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Genetically modified organisms, jeopardy or jackpot.

Today we're going to look at one of the most divisive issues in global food production,

genetically modified organisms.

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