If the Europeans are going to exclude all GMO products from their diet I suppose they need to also exclude beef.  After all, one quarter of the DNA in beef is a transfer from snakes.  It was done by nature, not by man.  Does that make a difference?  Transfer is transfer.  Would corn be ok if man moved that snake DNA into corn and made corn 25% snake DNA?  

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/3/1012

There is nothing at all new about moving DNA from one species to another.  Nature has been doing it for a few billion years now and is still doing it.  Why single out honey because of one very minor ingredient that may, or may not, be present and with zero demonstrated harm if present?  Politics is why.  It has nothing at all to do with science, reason or facts.  This seems normal for politics much of the time in my opinion.

Dick


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