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The World Isn't Scared Of GMOs Anymore

The anti-GMO movement has lost much of its cultural relevance in recent years and it now appears that the political debate surrounding crop biotechnology is all but over. We've discussed a number of developments over the last year that point in this direction—most recently Europe's softening trade restrictions in the face of food shortages caused by the war in Ukraine. But we can now point to some empirical data related to the GMO debate itself.
 
Writing in the Journal GM Crops & Food, a team of authors affiliated with Cornell's Alliance For Science analyzed 103,084 online and print articles and 1,716,071 social media posts related to genetically engineered crops. Conclusion? Most people seem to have lost interest in fighting about GMOs.
 
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