\n\n“Activists have convinced Americans that “organic” food is better\u2014healthier, better-tasting, life-extending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result, poor parents feel guilty if they can’t afford to pay $7 for organic eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This misinformation is spread by people like Alexis Baden-Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association. She says organic food is clearly better: “The nutrition is a huge difference.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it isn’t. Studies<\/a> find little difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you still want to pay more for what’s called “organic,” that’s your right. But what’s outrageous is that this group of scientifically illiterate people convinced the government to force<\/em> all of us to pay more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Congress has ruled that GMOs (genetically modified food) must be labeled. Busybodies from both parties supported the idea.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says<\/a> the GMO labelling will cost from $598 million to $3.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “But the public wants<\/em> GMOs labelled,” say advocates. “Surveys show that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask people if DNA<\/em> in food should be labelled, and most say yes. Yet DNA is in everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Polling is a stupid way to make policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The idea of modifying a plant’s DNA may sound creepy, but people have cross-bred plants and animals for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The corn we have today, there’s nothing natural about that,” I say to Baden-Mayer in my new video<\/a>. “What native people ate, we’d find inedible.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n “In poor parts of the world, half a million people per year go blind due to lack of vitamin A in their diets. Many die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scientists have created a new genetically modified rice that contains vitamin A. This “golden rice” could save those people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Sadly, in some countries, people listen to advocates like her and believe that Americans want to poison them. One group of GMO fearful protesters invaded a golden rice field in the Philippines, ripping up all the plants.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n