Environmental for Food Justice

Cartoon woodblock etching of the Lancashire Witch Trials.   Moderator’s Note: Over the past six years, we have been tracking and analyzing why the official risk science on GMOs is experiencing a legitimation crisis. We have noted how many risk scientists have sold their expertise to the highest corporate bidder and are finally becoming incapable of obscuring the truth by cherry-picking the evidence in order to serve their corporate masters. Some of the reasons for the legitimation crisis facing pro-GMO scientists include: 1.       Their inability to refute the well-established fact of gene flow and increasing occurrence of introgession events threatening the genomic integrity of center of origin land race varieties and their wild relatives; 2.        A tendency to ignore, flippantly dismiss, or purposefully misinterpret growing evidence of environmental and public health harms associated with the use of transgenic crop technologies...