Berkeley Daily Planet
Local restaurants join ban of biotechnology seafood

What planet are we talking about, anyway?

Anyway, about 200 restaurants say that they won't serve food "created with biotechnology". Leaving aside that any domesticated animal species has been subject to thousands of years of genetic manipulation (the slow way), they make it sound like mad scientists are brewing animals in vats somewhere. They're not, obviously.

There is a debate to be made about GM food, but it is not happening, because GM opponents are refusing to make serious objections and are instead acting like the doomsayer in a Frankenstein movie. "There are some things man is not meant to know," and all that. Well, I'll bring the debate down to their level: Bite me.