Issues you kinda sorta side with the Conservatives on

[Motown_Johnny]

17. Have you read any of that stuff?

The first few I checked out could easily be from The Onion.

The only one I found (so far) that isn't laughable is the Union of Concerned Scientists and even they are clearly bias.


http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/genetic-engineering/


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Health and Environmental Risks

While the risks of genetic engineering have sometimes been exaggerated or misrepresented, GE crops do have the potential to cause a variety of health problems and environmental impacts. For instance, they may produce new allergens and toxins, spread harmful traits to weeds and non-GE crops, or harm animals that consume them.

At least one major environmental impact of genetic engineering has already reached critical proportions: overuse of herbicide-tolerant GE crops has spurred an increase in herbicide use and an epidemic of herbicide-resistant "superweeds," which will lead to even more herbicide use.

How likely are other harmful GE impacts to occur? This is a difficult question to answer. Each crop-gene combination poses its own set of risks. While risk assessments are conducted as part of GE product approval, the data are generally supplied by the company seeking approval, and GE companies use their patent rights to exercise tight control over research on their products.

In short, there is a lot we don't know about the risks of GE—which is no reason for panic, but a good reason for caution.







So, even in this analysis, from a bias site that is set up to attack GMOs, the best it can come up with is that there are now some weeds that are also resistant to herbicides. No claims of causing cancer or growing gills. Nothing about a direct impact on our health at all outside of possibly allergies.