Chipotle’s Anti-GMO Stance Is Some Anti-Science Pandering Bullshit

Chipotle , a company known for making outsize burritos andpublishing literary fabrication on item of trash , announce today that it hasstopped serving food for thought made from genetically modify organisms ( GMOs ) . Oh hooray , yet another victoryfor misinformation .

There is a broadscientific consensusthat genetic modification is a safe and likely necessary engineering for feeding the world ’s growing universe . But heaps oforganic - tending peopleare still unwilling to accept the stance . Sure , Chipotle is giving people a choice here , but it ’s also capitulating to the idea there is something fundamentally incorrect with GMOs — while furbish its own incorporated image .

Here ’s why Chipotle ’s move peculiarly smells like pandering BS . For the preceding twain of years , Chipotle has been mystify its suppliers to get rid of GM corn and soybean plant . Today ’s “ GMO - loose ” promulgation come as Chipotle has switched over to non - GMO clavus and soybean oil , but it still serves chicken and pork from animals set up on GMO feed . ( Its beef cattle comes from grass - Federal Reserve cows . ) A well chunk of the GM corn and soybean grown in America actually goes to feed livestock , so a truly principled position against GMOs should cut out meat from GM - fed animals , too .

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Any surmisal why Chipotle has n’t stopped serve up GMO - fed volaille and pork barrel ? Because it’snot stinting to do so . What is good for business , though ? Declaring yourself GMO - free for packaging detail .

[ New York Times ]

Photoillustration by Andrew Liszewski . DNA image : bahri altay / shutterstock

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