[ExI] Environmental irrationality and Chipotle

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:07 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Environmentalists love to drone on and on about the dangers of
> insecticides and herbicides entering the food supply and of fertilizer
> getting into our rivers and lakes, but they applauded the restaurant chain
> Chipotle for refusing to use food that came from plants that need less
> insecticides, herbicides  and fertilizer. Even though they have never hurt
> anybody Chipotle caved in to superstition and announced they won't serve
> food that came from genetically modified plants.
>
> Except that they still will, virtually none of the plant food humans have
> consumed for the last few thousand years came from plants in their
> genetically natural state.
>
>   John K Clark
>
​Good article in the NYT Sunday about a man converting from anti-to
pro-GMO.​


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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/opinion/sunday/how-i-got-converted-to-gmo-food.html?ref=opinion
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