The moment someone mentions GMOs or gene-edited crops, a section of India breaks into moral panic mode — as if we’re injecting poison into a papaya. Meanwhile, half the world is already growing gene-edited maize, soybean, cotton… eating it too. And living to tweet about it.
Let’s be real — biotech in crops has worked. Higher yields, lower pesticide use, better incomes — even small farmers have benefited. Bt Cotton is Exhibit A. Yet, here we are, blocking drought-resistant, pest-tolerant, nutrient-enriched crops — not because they don’t work, but because some lobby somewhere said “no.” And here’s the kicker: nature’s been gene-editing since the first microbe wriggled on Earth. Evolution is biology tweaking its own code. So if smart science accelerates that — with precision, ethics, and safety — why are we so scared? Especially when the same people happily eat imported canola oil or wear GM-cotton shirts.
If we trust science to build our rockets and run our hospitals, maybe we should trust it to fix our food too. Fear can’t be our food policy.
