Organic activists would
like you to believe their brand preexists in nature the way fresh air and clean
water do.
It does not.
Organic food only exists
because we have come up with a legal framework by which to define it; a
mind-numbing legal framework... just ask any organic farmer who's behind on his
paperwork.
If we were to decide tomorrow
that certain GMOs would be acceptable as organic, as President Clinton
suggested, we could rewrite the law. Or we can leave things the way they are,
embroiled in controversy. It's up to humans to define what "organic"
means, either way.
Then there's the notion that
GMOs "contaminate" organic crops, as if we're talking about dumping
effluents into a pristine stream full of brook trout.
We're not. We're talking about
politics, plain and simple.
GMOs are completely safe. So if politicians should ever decide to
agree that GMOs actually “contaminate” organic crops, it will be a political
decision to devise a legal construct saying so, not a scientific decision.
So why is the idea of GMO
contamination embraced so fervently by organic activists?
Simple. Their aim is to
sideline agricultural genetic engineering, and thereby prevent GMO farming from
moving forward.
