Just Keep Soldiering On

The other day I went to a meeting about the lawsuit that will seek to invalidate Bill 113, the Big Island's anti-GMO bill, based on federal pre-emption.   It's just sad that we all have to go through this pain, conflict, and expense with everyone having the best intentions, just different best intentions. 

How will the future turn out?  Will we gradually convert to more organic/sustainable kinds of agricultural production systems?  I think and hope so.  Will GM crops be part of the challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050?  Probably.  It will be a little bit of both. 

It is good that we think long and hard about the risks of GM technology.  The critics of GM are right in that there are great risks in altering biology at a genetic level, in my opinion.  But they are also a bit hysterical about that risk.  Automobiles pose a much greater threat to individual bodily health and to the health of the planet.   By orders of magnitude.  But we keep driving on and on.

It isn't what's written or spoken that matters at the end of the day.  It's what gets done, it's what we do with our bodies.  So we must live the life that seems best to us, that perhaps makes things a little better for everyone, both human and non-human, and keep soldiering on.