{"id":51725,"date":"2015-07-14T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/genetically-modified-organisms-gmos-are-probably-not-the-food-of-the-devil.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:40:55","slug":"genetically-modified-organisms-gmos-are-probably-not-the-food-of-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/genetically-modified-organisms-gmos-are-probably-not-the-food-of-the-devil.html","title":{"rendered":"Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are probably not the Food of the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the click-bait title (theirs or mine), this video from <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106717099064272520324\" oid=\"106717099064272520324\">SciShow<\/a><\/span>  is actually a pretty well-balanced review of what GMOs are, how they are made, and the costs and benefits of their development and use.<\/p>\n<p>(As a disclosure of confirmation bias, &quot;pretty well-balanced&quot; means here &quot;illuminating, but aligning with what my previous research and opinions indicated.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sH4bi60alZU' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/PGLQzZRMQGW'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the click-bait title (theirs or mine), this video from +SciShow is actually a pretty well-balanced review of what GMOs are, how they are made, and the costs and benefits of their development and use. (As a disclosure of confirmation bias, &quot;pretty well-balanced&quot; means here &quot;illuminating, but aligning with what my previous research and opinions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/genetically-modified-organisms-gmos-are-probably-not-the-food-of-the-devil.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are probably not the Food of the Devil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32049,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/gmos-arent-the-problem-gmo-patent-holders-are.html","url_meta":{"origin":51725,"position":0},"title":"GMOs aren&#39;t the problem &#8212; GMO patent-holders are","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jan-13 11:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's really two aspects to the anti-Genetically Modified Organism argument that need to be considered. 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