GMOs Are Safe, But Don't Always Deliver On Promises, Top Scientists Say

[WhiteTara]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/17/478415310/top-scientists-say-gmos-are-safe-but-dont-always-deliver-on-promises

The National Academy of Sciences — probably the country's most prestigious scientific group — has reaffirmed its judgment that GMOs are safe to eat. But the group's new report struck a different tone from previous ones, with much more space devoted to concerns about genetically modified foods, including social and economic ones.

The report marks an anniversary. Twenty years ago, farmers started growing soybeans that had been genetically modified to tolerate the popular weedkiller known as Roundup and corn that contains a protein, extracted from bacteria, that kills some insect pests.

In the years since, arguments about these crops have grown so contentious that the National Academy can't be sure that people will believe whatever it has to say on the topic.

Even before this report came out, an anti-GMO group called Food & Water Watch attacked it. The group accused some members of the committee that prepared the report of receiving research funding from biotech companies, or having other ties to the industry.

[bkkyosemite]

1. Not eating them...

[WhiteTara]

2. since they aren't labeled

you might not know.

[HuckleB]

5. Fear is s cool.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Well well,appears we have a bit of

descent as per the NPR story. Seems the evidence presented was brought by persons with a agenda. If my memory works at this late stage in life,Bio Scientist keep finding Glyophospate tracers in our food supply,last I recall was,that chemical is one of the so called weed killers. And Pioneer Hybrid Seeds created a Genetic Modified Organism of Glyophosphate and injected that into the genome of Corn. Well,fine and dandy for them,question is what the heck are we doing putting a harmful chemical into one of our main food ingredients . Sure as heck did not increase Corn yields,in fact studies from the U of Nebraska as well as Iowa prove non GMO Corn produces higher yields. Go Figger,must be a profit enhancer Monsanto. Who woulda thunk.

[HuckleB]

4. Exactly.

GMO is just about the seed development technology.