I've been thinking quite a lot about food lately, largely as it relates to this weird growing fear of GMO food (a fear that parallels similar weird, unscientific fears of vaccines).
The pseudoscientific terror of GMO foods seems to be a kind of modern version of the old kosher or halal religious food purity things, only instead of saying "God said it" now we say "confused pseudoscientific garwharbl said it." But the root seems identical--a fear response without grounding in evidence, turned into a a quest to see certain kinds of food as "bad." (In San Francisco, we stayed with a friend who buys--get this--"GMO free" salt, in spite of the fact that salt isn't even grown--there is no G to M because salt is not an O.)
