[jluetjen]

Kurt, from a logic perspective I don't follow you.

If you asked a European, they would tell you that there is a "heated" debate concerning Genetically Engineered (GE) food. What the Europeans consider to be GE Foods have been for sale in the US for years without any clear linkages to any deaths, and for the most part nobody here bats an eye-lash on the subject.

If you asked some Americans, they would say that there is/was a "heated" debate about labeling Allergens in foods -- and as a result Allergens are now labeled on all foods in the US. But that subject doesn't even register on the European's radar screen in spite of there being at least 20 deaths in Norway alone in one of the recent years ( but I no longer have the reference) directly linked to food allergies. (Disclaimer, I have a daughter with food allergies, so I have a stake in this example.)

So the fact that there is a debate doesn't mean that something is dangerous, nor does the lack of a debate (at least in some quarters) constitute a safe situation.

At the end of the day, we all need to make our own decisions, but since you offered up your rational, I have to admit that I don't follow it.