"GMOs", "contamination" and "coexistence": Challenging the misuse of concepts and wrongheaded regulation of agriculture and food
The term “genetically modified organisms” (or “GMOs”) has come into wide use over the past two decades although it is not a scientific term. The terms used in the science community are “genetic engineering” or “genetic modification”. Yet the more popular nomenclature has persisted in part because biotechnology skeptics know that it stigmatizes a safe process. Who would want to eat an “organism”?
Source: geneticliteracyproject.org
