i love non gmo foods.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques (i.e., a genetically \"engineered\" organism). GMOs are used to produce many medications and genetically modified foods and are widely used in scientific research and the production of other goods. The term GMO is very close to the technical legal term, 'living modified organism', defined in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which regulates international trade in living GMOs (specifically, \"any living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology\"). A more specifically defined type of GMO is a \"transgenic organism.\" This is an organism whose genetic makeup has been altered by the addition of genetic material from an unrelated organism. This should not be confused with the more general way in which \"GMO\" is used to classify genetically altered organisms, as typically GMOs are organisms whose genetic makeup has been altered without the addition of genetic material from an unrelated organism. The first genetically modified mouse was created in 1974, and the first plant was produced in 1983.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm not sure why people are so concerned with GMOs in food. I think it's just a buzzword to scare people."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The key problem seems to be with the debate on if foods containing GMOs should be labeled or not."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ah, true. I think that would be pointless though. So many foods would end up being labeled as GMO that it wouldn't have meaning."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "GMO foods are actually fairly new, beginning in the last 25 years. So labels only showing foods without GMO's might still be useful and plentiful."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think that depends on how you define \"genetically modified.\" Technically speaking, any plant bred to have more edible material would be a GMO."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Many countries use  something called \"substantial equivalence\" when determining authorization of GMO cultivation. Maybe that's the standard that should be used to label food."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah I like that, but I can imagine the same rabble rousers would then start to claim that a regulatory agency like that would be biased somehow."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Isn't that always the way? There's bias in everything, on all sides. So just like it's accused with other agencies, it certainly would be with that."}, {"role": "user", "content": "True, which is why I think more education might ultimately be the answer here. GMOs have been made to seem spooky by media."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Media neutrality has always been an issue. And it goes both ways. Look at the tobacco industry in the 1950's and before."}]