It at least lends credibility to anti-GMO activism.
If you were hoping to make the case for evidence-based nutrition and nutritional science on the backs of the America's fast food restaurants, I think you are in for a lot of disappointment.
Another company folding to bad science isn't helping people either...
"Folding"? It's what customers want. According to the article, the CEO of Chipotle believes GMO ingredients are fine. But I don't think it's the duty of a fast food restaurant to tell the public that they are wrong for wanting one ingredient over another.
Its called voting with your dollars.
Just cause something is popular doesn't make it good science. The fact that people vote against GMO's in this way is, if anything, depressing.
And the majority of GMO crops being grown: Canola, Maize, Soybean, and Cotton aren't stopping these children from going blind either. The cotton might be making clothing cheaper, but the rest are processed into oils or HFCS or animal feed at a far higher rate than they are consumed in an unprocessed form.
It feeds the conspiracy.
Obviously not. The problem is that when a big, well-known company takes an anti-science stance like this, it persuades ignorant people.