US education, americans want food conatining DNA to be specially labelled - Page 1

sorry typo in heading.

i thought this was parody, i think it is real.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/17/over-80-percent-of-americans-support-mandatory-labels-on-foods-containing-dna/

 

 

Scientific ignorance is bliss to many and benefit to others who depend on it for sales pitch.

The following quote from the article says  it all,especially the last two sentences:

 

"Even the smartest people are inevitably ignorant of the vast majority of information out there. We all have to focus our time and energy on learning that information which is most likely to be instrumentally useful, or at least provide entertainment value. For large numbers of people, much basic political and scientific information doesn’t make the cut."