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Non-GMO Salt. Utter nonsense. The idea of "non-GMO salt" is fundamentally flawed and reveals a misunderstanding of what GMOs (genetically modified organisms) actually are. To clarify, GMOs refer to living organisms - plants, animals, or microbes - whose genetic material has been intentionally modified. Salt, however, is not an organism. It’s an inorganic compound, primarily sodium chloride (NaCl), with no DNA or genetic material to modify. For something to be genetically modified, it must have genes. This is why GMO applies to living things like crops or bacteria, but not to non-living, inorganic substances like salt. Labeling salt as "non-GMO" is scientifically meaningless. It’s a marketing gimmick designed to exploit consumer fears about GMOs, even though GMOs have no relevance to a substance like salt. These labels don’t inform—they mislead, creating unnecessary confusion and fostering misconceptions about basic science. Far from protecting consumers, they undermine scientific literacy and fuel mistrust in legitimate food labeling practices.

Additives are not GMO, this label does not say they're not using additives. If that's what they want to point out, then it isn't clear at all, so the argument does stand.

Note that these people never actually bother to tell you anything about what’s packed in the salt. Salt frequently has additives-cellulose, dextrose, corn starch, maltodextrin, etc- made from GMO ingredients. These are all totally safe, but this sort of denialism looks like…

Is he pretending? Or just ignorant of this fact until I was a moment ago?

People like @simonmaechling are the worst type of bad actor because they: A.) Do not understand the food system B.) Only address strawman arguments that nobody actually puts forward. You can’t defend science by gaslighting concerned people.

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I would be very interested in a risk analysis comparing caffeine and the pesticide residues farmworkers are exposed to.

They function to essentially promote scientific racism, and disguise these intentions by hiding their pseudoscience with more legitimate articles. They’re every bit as pseudoscientific as RFL Jr, but just on different topics.