The GMO controversy reached its illogical end in 2015, when New York Assemblyman Thomas J. Abinanti introduced Bill 1706, banning all genetically modified vaccines. Not surprisingly, most vaccines are genetically modified. If not, then people would be injected with the “natural” bacteria or viruses that caused the disease. For example, by genetically modifying poliovirus, we’ve eliminated polio from the United States and from much of the world. Vaccines have to be genetically modified.