“…This paper revisits Stone's (2002, p. 616) call to scrutinize the polarized and often manipulative positions in the GMO debates in part to 'increase the empirical veracity of the global debate'. In doing so, I do not address many important but related conversations about GM crops, including the deep ideological divides and different interpretations of the stakes of GM crops or definitions of risk (Fitting, 2010;Kinchy, 2012;Schurman & Munro, 2010), questions about the relationships between industry funding/influence, biotechnology and scientific research and knowledge (Glenna, Welsh, Ervin, Lacy, & Biscotti, 2011;Moore, Kleinman, Hess, & Frickel, 2011;Schurman, 2017), and broader conversations about GM crops as embedded in a capitalist food regime, including questions about intellectual property and seed enclosures (Kloppenburg, 2004(Kloppenburg, , 2010McAfee, 2003), or the structural causes of poverty and hunger (Jansen & Gupta, 2009;Moseley, 2017;Tripp, 2009).…”