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Re: “Farmers oppose labeling GMO food” (C-P, Aug. 26)

Nobody having surgery would want me standing next to their surgeon voicing my opinion of what or how to cut and remove because I know nothing about surgery. They would like it even less if the surgeon actually listened to me. Put simply, I am not qualified to even have an opinion in matters like that.

In the same way, the vast majority of the general public knows nothing about genetically modified foods, what they are, how the process works or what they do. Many ignore the knowledgeable people and science yet persist in loudly voicing their unqualified opinions.

Stating something is true just because you believe it is doesn’t make it so. If the public decided scientific issues of which they are woefully ignorant, we would be in much worse shape than we already are.

TED SWIRSKY

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