GMO Answers

Run a Google search on "GMOs" and you will get all kinds of info from facts to unscientific propaganda.  So is there a site where you can actually ask questions and get an answer?  There is one really nice site that is available for you submit your questions and get an answer.

Check out the GMO answers site.   This site is funded by Council for Biotechnology Information which include Bayer, BASF, Syngenta, Monsanto, Dow, and DuPont.  I know the first reaction is of course they are going to answer the questions with a GMO friendly bias.  Yet one of the things I hear the most about GMOs is that the big agricultural companies are not transparent, they are selfish, and not to be trusted.  Well these companies are more than willing to give you answers and information if you are willing to listen  Ask questions and they will give truthful answers.  Many times the answers are given by an outside expert such as a professor from an industry.




































However, the anti-GMO groups are not just sitting around letting the public become educated with truthful information from sites like GMO answers.  They are very good at finding ways to fight back.  So some of the experts that help answer questions about GMOs on the GMO Answers site among other researchers throughout the United States were asked by a group called the US right to know to turn over all of their emails to companies in the biotech field.  They were sure that the researchers were colluding with the biotech industry.  This couldn't be farther from the truth.

Kevin Folta was one of those researchers.  He shares his story here and it is a good read.  The Kevin Folta story.  Imagine being targeted by a group like this.  You have nothing to hide, but it still turns you life upside down to have to comply with some bogus request like the ones these researchers had to do. And then anything they find can be taken out of context to smear biotech, the researcher, and even the universities.

Smear campaigns are very easy to run.  People fall for misinformation all the time just like the phishing emails that clutter your inbox but are able to steal peoples info all the time.  Check out these articles and resources and see the other side of the issue.  This is the side that is usually hard to see behind the Photoshoped pictures of food turning into monsters..