Here Concludes...
The current regulations on safety and testing of GMO food products give primary oversight and legal responsibility to the companies that produce and market those products. The difficulty in presenting data that contradicts this self-regulation, but necessarily maintains scientific objectivity, creates a narrative of scientific evidence that is reinforced by legal precedence and economic impetus. This drives one of the main controversies within GMO food debates, which is the current standard of GMO food safety and research. In arguing the for the necessities and qualifications for GMO food research, scientists use a rhetoric that is not only scientific, but also implies a legislative and economic rhetoric.
Under current legislative and economic conditions, the rhetoric of GMO food safety and research cannot be examined through a purely scientific lens because it is contaminated by the legal and the economic. The science of GMO food safety and research is subsequently restricted and narrowed by this contaminated rhetoric. Until distinct legislative or economic changes are made, these conditions will remain the same. In order to affect the science of GMO food research, the legislative and the economic must also be addressed--ideally, with a greater emphasis on the extensiveness and availability of research, and with a lesser emphasis on meeting legal and economic demands.
Under current legislative and economic conditions, the rhetoric of GMO food safety and research cannot be examined through a purely scientific lens because it is contaminated by the legal and the economic. The science of GMO food safety and research is subsequently restricted and narrowed by this contaminated rhetoric. Until distinct legislative or economic changes are made, these conditions will remain the same. In order to affect the science of GMO food research, the legislative and the economic must also be addressed--ideally, with a greater emphasis on the extensiveness and availability of research, and with a lesser emphasis on meeting legal and economic demands.
GMO science research is not the only area affected by these legislative and economic conditions, and it is certainly not yet pervasive enough to enact a systematic transition as suggested by this website's analyses. Hopefully, through the analyses and examinations documented here, a reader is more knowledgeable of how essential legislative and economic structures are to the sciences--really, to any institution or practice that requires money and intends to persist in a socio-economic environment where everything is endowed with value.