TiaMarie08

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Genetically modified food article

Hi TiaMarie08

Thanks for editing the GM foods article! I noticed that you added new content to the Controversies section, which I edited just after you did. Quick historical note, since you just started editing this page. About a year ago, there were several articles describing genetically modified "stuff" - there was GM food, GMOs, and genetic engineering. There was no article on GM crops. All three of these articles were pretty much full of the same content - namely, the whole range of reasons why people don't like GMOs. There was no information anywhere in Wikipedia on what food was actually genetically modified! I, in collaborations with editors working on various articles related to this at the time, decided at that time to take all the content on the controversy, and put it in a single article, create a GM crops article, and then have each of the articles actually describe their topic. This was done in dialogue on the relevant Talk pages. So now the articles provide useful content to readers -- what are GM crops and what crops have been modified and where are they grown; what food is GM, what is a GMO, how are these things made (genetic engineering); and what are the various controversies? Wikipedia now explains all this in a clear, organized way. All the controversy stuff is now concentrated in one article, where it is discussed with nuance and at length. Each of the non-controversy articles has a stub giving the high-level overview of the controversy and pointing readers to the main article. The controversies article is very very long -- there is almost no end to how those stubs could be expanded if we start expanding them! Please believe me, we have a lot of people come through (mostly IP addresses) and are just bombers, much more rarely people who care enough to stick around and actually ask what is going on. I invite you to stick around and help us improve the whole suite. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 20:05, 20 September 2013 (UTC)