Remember a couple of years ago when I wrote despairingly of American scientific illiteracy and the fact that 1 in 4 Americans didn’t know that the earth revolves around the sun? I was pretty certain that that represented the infimum of such stories. I should have known better. Today, we have this:
"80 Percent of Americans Want to Label Food That Contains DNA" https://t.co/NTEL1583Bl
via @modernscientist
— Kontra (@counternotions) May 26, 2016
I get that some people worry about GMOs and would rather avoid them but is it too much to ask that they know what they’re talking about? What on earth can non-genetically modified mean if your food doesn’t have DNA?