The benefits of GM foods

This is for all the Precaution Principle devotees whose ignorance and alarmism would stop scientists from developing foods that increase yields and have extra nutritional benefits: GM foods are good.

Ever eat corn? Every ear of corn you eat is a product of genetic modification over years of plant breeding that rendered American Indian maize into the tastier and more nutritious form of yellow and white corn.

Second, every spear of broccoli you have eaten is the product of genetic engineering -- before about the middle of the 20th century there was no broccoli growing in farms anywhere. Yet broccoli is a wonder veggie: one of the four most nutritious (carrots, spinach and sweet potatoes are the other three) and with a surfeit of antioxidants that may completely prevent bladder cancer, according to the report linked at the top of this post.