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On November 25, 2017

If you’ve followed the debate about GMOs with any sort of regularity, there’s a strong chance you’ve come across a picture of a tomato stabbed by a giant syringe. That image, though a complete fiction, seems to perfectly capture what’s preventing public acceptance of these foods: We don’t really know what makes something a GMO.
GMOs aren’t made with syringes and, at the moment, they aren’t even made with tomatoes, at least not commercially. But that false image is everywhere, and surveys indicate consumers fear GMOs without knowing much about them.
So what exactly is a GMO?

 

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