The Non-GMO Project is a lie. The whole anti-GMO movement is a luddite scheme co-opted as a marketing ploy for the so-called "natural" foods industry.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/23/non-gmo-is-a-marketing-scam-nothing-more/ https://octodon.social/media/35jQB6U-d_L0_9s0Y7E
I'm curious to see if I get more pushback on this from the more liberal Mastodon community than I do from the more conservative birdsite.
But then maybe people here are just plain smarter & better informed.
@pzmyers the whole GMO movement is a farce because the definition of GMO is so narrow and the differences are meaningless. Selective breeding and mutagenesis have been practised for centuries and are also genetic modification that can be good OR bad despite being excluded from the GMO definition.
It is the same as "organic" or "natural" products or herbal remedies. Some are wonderful and some are harmful just like the manufactured alternatives...
@pzmyers ...for example kava and comfrey are herbs that have side effects and interactions just as serious as any conventional drug, and the notion of an organic banana being somehow more "natural" is ridiculous.
The use of these marketing tools to inflate margins is not ethical...it guilts people out of their money and makes poorer people feel resigned to eating worse diets than they have to. Using food as a status symbol to enforce exclusivity is evil.