Benefits of controversy

Although you might think that controversy is a bad thing – it isn’t always.

As seen in the last post, many factors come into play with GM, and they act upon each other in a variety of ways – internal factors can cause external factors, external factors can cause internal factors, each can inflate the other, etc.

I believe in a topic such as GM, where human and environmental health is potentially at risk, controversy is actually a good thing.

The public is demanding to know that it’s safe, that it’s worth the risks. In doing so, they are forcing the scientists to look more closely at the work they are doing, and making sure governments have regulations in place for the creation, testing, and release of GMO.

One thing that confuses me, however, is that some advocacy groups are demanding more testing for crops, yet at the same time protesting when scientists do field trials (which are the only real way to test crops)...