re: #30 Obdicut

Your last sentence was great. The paragraph was a little muddled. I’m not sure why you think all resistance to GM is ‘left-wing’— some is religious, for example— and Africa itself has often refused GM food.

Here’s the other side of the aisle on that one:

[Link: www.sourcewatch.org…]

Tyere is no scientific consensus on GM foods. There is scientific consensus on AGW. The comparison isn’t that good.

It’s important to recognize that ‘the Third World’s often justified paranoia about the intentions of the First World’ is not strictly a ‘left-wing’ phenomenon, although it may well be yapped about a lot by First-World lefties.