{"id":6698,"date":"2014-03-22T02:35:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T09:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2014-03-22T02:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T09:35:45","slug":"%e2%80%8bgmo-labeling-effort-in-colorado-scores-win-in-state-supreme-court-rt-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/%e2%80%8bgmo-labeling-effort-in-colorado-scores-win-in-state-supreme-court-rt-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bGMO labeling effort in Colorado scores win in state Supreme Court \u2014 RT USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Nassim Taleb, professor of risk engineering at New York University and author of best-sellers &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217; and &#8216;Fooled by Randomness,&#8217; recently said that GMOs have a very real ability to cause &#8220;an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet.&#8221; Taleb\u2019s thesis basically stems from the fact that GMOs come from laboratory alterations rather than natural processes, and that humans cannot understand that with each modified seed, the potential for \u201ctotal ecocide\u201d increases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no comparison between the [bottom-up] tinkering of selective breeding and the top-down engineering of taking a gene from an organism and putting it into another,\u201d Taleb and colleagues say in a draft of their research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The planet took about close to zero risks of ecocide in trillions of variations over 3 billion years, otherwise we would not have been here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/colorado-gmo-label-court-945\/\">\u200bGMO labeling effort in Colorado scores win in state Supreme Court \u2014 RT USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nassim Taleb, professor of risk engineering at New York University and author of best-sellers &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217; and &#8216;Fooled by Randomness,&#8217; recently said that GMOs have a very real ability to cause &#8220;an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet.&#8221; Taleb\u2019s thesis basically stems from the fact that GMOs come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[791],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-gmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}