If GMOs are so safe and so healthy...

[bluestate10]

5. Part of the reason may be tradition.

Crops have been genetically modified for centuries. It is impossible to find a food crop today that doesn't have genetic modification in it's lineage, that includes so called "organic" seeds.

But historical genetic modification involved transfer of pollen from one variety of a plant to another. This is how the first drought resistant corn was produced, and how every type of tomato that is sold at the grocer or farmer's markets were produced. Transfer of pollen resulted in genetic modification in the resulting plant, by adding a gene that it didn't have or adding a gene that caused suppression of one or more genes.

What is new is gene splicing where scientists actively alter genes in a matter of seconds.

I am not one that get excited about GMO crops, mostly because some version of what is being done has happened for a long time and the results are part of our food supply. What I do think is important is companies that are buying genetically modified seed state that as part of the information available on the labels of the products they they ultimately produce - in this case, people that don't want to consume newly genetically modified crops can instead choose from the many that were genetically modified centuries or decades ago.