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In reply to the discussion: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tells Bill Maher That Anti-Science Liberals Are Full of Shit Too [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)GMO sugar beets any differently than sugar produced from non-GMO sugar cane?
Chemically, the end product is identical, being composed of practically entirely of sucrose and fructose.
Would you conclude the GMO sugar beets are unsafe, what justification would be used.
The techniques about how something is produced don't really matter as they are, for all practical purposes, chemically identical.
Another example, this time in food flavoring, and this just shows the stupidity in marketing/regulation. You can, quite easily synthesize Vanillin in the lab, you can probably guess what that is, its the molecule responsible for the smell/taste we call Vanillin. However, if you were to do that, you cannot label your product organic, why, because you synthesized this one chemical in the lab. If you were to harvest it from vanilla bean, then you can label it as organic, even though its the exact same molecule. Seems rather silly, don't you think?
You also have yet to bring up your economic and environmental concerns.