Billions with a B

Good blogging heads. Check it out at 43:40 for the most interesting bit on GMOs, environmentalism and political ideology.



Quotables:

AA: “People who have the kind of politics that suggests they really care about poor people…often have environmental beliefs that are exaggerated and they really are willing to do extreme things that would be damaging to poor people.”

BD: “The very people who are most critical of GM crops are the very people who for their stated beliefs should be its biggest supporters… Too many people let their politics determine their science."

To continue the thread of duplicitous or contradictory beliefs: the same group who argues we don’t know enough about the long-term health effects of agriculture biotechnology (which is a valid and debatable argument) are disproportionately the people who take Echinacea and Ginkgo supplements.