"If it wasn't for Twinkies we'd all be dead now!" - Calvin and Hobbes.
You know perfectly well I didn't mean what you implied about Twinkies == non-GMO food.
And is it really "chicken little?" Altering the DNA of something changes its nutritional properties... as does irradiation. Consuming harsh pesticides won't do your body good.
That said, I'm not tofu-and-bean-sprouts hippie either. Yes, we eat meat and buy veggies off the counter, but I'll buy organic whenever I can if the price is only a small difference. I'm no fool - I realize we have to eat so we'll take our chances - but I know there's a potential risk for long-term effects that we just don't know about yet. Eating strange/poisoned/tainted foods have caused problems in the past. Even your founding fathers, many first Americans died not from harsh conditions or starvation, but of lead poisoning from their canned meat. (Who would have thought lead would be bad for you?)
Heck, people used to drink MERCURY (quicksilver) thinking it was a special delicacy, until people started dying some time later and they equated the two.
Oh, and nice job taking one quote from Glickman. Here's another which doesn't support your argument:
" It appears that although the opinions of the various interest groups have waxed and waned throughout the drafting process over the course of a decade, the drafters? intent has remained constant. On December 17, 1998, Dan Glickman reminded us all of the USDA?s commitment to enacting organic regulations grounded in this ultimate concern for consumer safety. He said that his department would focus on a number of key priorities in 1999, one of which was the issuance of national organic standards that are good both for farmers and consumers.[144]"
...and another...
"Jones has given use some hints about the specifics on the next NOP rule. At an April 1998 briefing between about fifty industry officials and the United States? delegation to the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, he stated that Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, had ?pretty much ruled out? including genetically modified organisms, irradiated foods and crops fertilized with sewage sludge.[152] This conjecture was cemented in Keith Jones? presentation to farmers at the Ecological Farming Conference in January, 1999.[153] Similarly, in July of last year, Glickman himself assured the NOSB that the new rule would include no synthetic material that had not been previously approved by the NOSB.[154]"
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