Why the fuss about GMOs? Here is my two cents on the debate

The long-term sustainability and reliance on imported seed are policy questions that need serious addressing. [iStockphoto]

As both a farmer and a globalist, the hullaballoo over the resistance to biotechnology crops continues to baffle me.

I once sat with a politician, who proceeded to educate me that Genetically Modified Crops (GMOs) would result in consequences so dire such as my unborn (his emphasis and ridicule on the fact that I was yet to have offspring) children growing with two heads.