This is the same France that is denounced here as an enemy of productive people and safe haven of moochers? (See on the Gulch here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/5f...) You cannot have it both ways unless you can explain one or the other as an exception to a rule. That explanation would have be causal, citing trends within French political culture.

As for the claim that Nature does not do this or does do that, what animal flies like an airplane? Where is the automobile in nature? Where is the aniline process?
"In 1888, Friedrich Reinitzer (1858–1927) discovered the liquid crystalline nature of cholesterol extracted from carrots (that is, two melting points and generation of colors) and published his findings at a meeting of the Vienna Chemical Society on May 3, 1888 (F. Reinitzer: Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Cholesterins, Monatshefte für Chemie (Wien) 9, 421–441 (1888)" -- History of the liquid crystal display: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crys...

I mean, really, what is "un-natural" cannot exist. That which exists is natural. Magnetism exists. AlNiCo magnets are not found growing wild in a so-called "natural state". The list is as long as human inventiveness...

Respectfully - you both are missing the point. "Natural" genetic changes isn't GMO. Nature doesn't do things like combine a salmon with an insect. Nature doesn't make a corn that survives Roundup. Brand recognition is valid but doesn't apply here. I can choose between yellow or red tomatoes without having to deal with GMO. That's always been the case.

I used to be neutral on GMO until I really looked into its history and methods. In general: GMO often equals glyphosates. You don't want it.

And, it will never get banned in America. I bank on that...

I think that legislation is unnecessary. Does anyone remember why individual strains of a crop have their own names e.g. truckers favorite yellow corn? Brand recognition, that way consumers could recognize what strain they liked and which they didn't, thereby allowing them to vote with their dollars for or against a product. If a product gets too few votes it becomes unprofitable to produce and slowly vanishes. Capitalism at work, why do we allow governments to make the decisions we could and should make for ourselves? The answer is simple society is getting lazier and lazier.