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There's a huge middle ground between "proven safe" and "proven unsafe". People in this debate seem to forget that. Personally, I want pretty good evidence tha
by ScottBurson 14y ago
There's a huge middle ground between "proven safe" and "proven unsafe". People in this debate seem to forget that.
Personally, I want pretty good evidence that something is safe before putting it in my body. If the mere lack of evidence that it's unsafe is sufficient for you, well, that's your choice.
- tinco 14y agoYou can never prove something is safe. The only indication that something is safe is lack of evidence of unsafety multiplied by time. What would be evidence for you that something is safe enough to put into your body?
- ScottBurson 14y agoWell, if a population of several thousand humans had been eating it for 50 years without evident ill effect, I suppose that would be more or less good enough. In any discussion of risk it is important to remember the value to be obtained. I might take a drug with known dangerous side effects on the chance it would cure a disease from which I suffered. But to me, the only possible benefit of eating a GMO food is that it would be somewhat cheaper than something else I could eat. For some people, that might be a good enough reason. For me, it's not.