There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There’s good reason for this. Genetically modified foods do nothing for the ‘eating public’. They provide no extra nutrition, flavor, safety or any other trait that people actually want. Instead, these food products only offer risks, which include potential toxicity, allergenecity, and lower nutritional value. This presents a tough problem for the Monsantos of the world, who are pushing these GM foods. How can you sell something to the public that offers no benefits to them? And, because of their lobbying power, the biotech companies have ensured that their products are not labeled. So Monsanto’s real request of the public is ‘be unknowing guinea pigs for foods that make us a lot of money and offer you nothing but risk.’ Obviously this message is a PR nightmare, so Monsanto has come up with a spin that is old as public relations itself: ‘accept and buy our products because they will help the world.’ More particularly, their ads displayed in mass transit systems around the country and regularly on NPR claim that GM […]