you say anti-scientific hysteria, I say reasonable fears regularly ignored by industry and whitewashed by an industry captured fda. example 1: bpa

from the wiki article [1]:

   In 2006, the US Government sponsored an assessment of the scientific 
   literature on BPA. Thirty-eight experts in fields involved with bisphenol A 
   gathered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to review several hundred studies on 
   BPA, many conducted by members of the group. At the end of the meeting, the 
   group issued the Chapel Hill Consensus Statement,[100] which stated BPA at 
   concentrations found in the human body is associated with organizational 
   changes in the prostate, breast, testis, mammary glands, body size, brain 
   structure and chemistry, and behavior of laboratory animals.[101]

   The Chapel Hill Consensus Statement found that average levels in people are 
   above those that cause harm to many animals in laboratory experiments. They 
   noted that while BPA is not persistent in the environment or in humans, 
   biomonitoring surveys indicate that exposure is continuous, which is 
   problematic because acute animal exposure studies are used to estimate daily 
   human exposure to BPA, and no studies that had examined BPA pharmacokinetics 
   in animal models had followed continuous low-level exposures. They added 
   that measurement of BPA levels in serum and other body fluids suggests the 
   possibilities that BPA intake is much higher than accounted for, and/or that 
   BPA can bioaccumulate in some conditions (such as pregnancy).[100]
   
   A 2008 report by the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human 
   Reproduction within the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), which is 
   within the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, reported the 
   results of its exhaustive review of the literature. Its conclusions, 
   expressed relative to current estimates of general population exposure 
   levels in the U.S., were the following:

and yet bpa is still used. So when we hear that monsanto pinky-swears their experiments, even when they contaminate neighboring fields, are super duper safe, or orange growers promise up and down that, well, their genetic modifications they introduced to prevent their business from being destroyed are absolutely positively safe (we promise!)... forgive me for being skeptical.

Not to mention the freakout about labeling foods; if they weren't knowingly poisoning us, why exactly would corporations be so very afraid of properly labeling foods? Any reasonable adult should have his or her bullshit detector going off when they are told gmo is absolutely safe, but it's the end of the world if we tell people which foods have gmo ingredients so that they can choose what to eat.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A