I took a photo of the anti-GMO demonstration here in San Francisco. The demonstration is against the BioTechnology conference that is in the Moscone Center. There were not many demonstrators at the time I took the photo this morning.
Readers know I change my mind and publicly admit it. Back in the early 1990s I was on both sides. I was the founder of the Project to Label Gene Altered Food (it was 1991, years before the terms GM and GMO evolved) and I attended the BioTech conference in 1992 to argue against GM food.
Today, I am still on both sides. The opposite sides. I am satisfied that my original position in favor of labeling GM food has been achieved. The USDA organic label now means the food is not GM. I also have been in the movement long enough, thirteen years, to be comfortable with the safety of GM food. There have been enough crops and enough quantities of GM food consumed to identity gross problems. There aren’t any gross problems. Problems may still occur in the future, but that is no longer a reason to sidetrack an entire industry.
On the other hand, biotech people still don’t understand the moral wrong involved in genetic modification of the human germline. That is a moral outrage that must be stopped and I am still working on it. The anti-GMO debate drains resources from the real issue of human germline engineering and attracts lunatic lefties whose presence in any debate clouds the issue.