The fact is, there has never been a single study on the human safety of these products. Any implication to the contrary is a pure fabrication. Make the corporate apologists produce a single study, and they can not. The important point is this.
Among scientists, the scientific community is deeply divided as to whether these foods are safe or not, so the burden of proof is on industry. And so far, the corporations have failed to demonstrate the safety of these foods on humans through a single study. In the last thirty years global demand for food has doubled. In a race to feed the planet, scientists have discovered how to manipulate DNA, the blueprint of life, and produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that Genetically Modified Food may not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked violent protest. Are we participating in a dangerous global nutritional experiment? This informative film helps the viewer decide if the production of genetically modified food is a panacea for world hunger or a global poison.
I agree with you
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“… the scientific community is deeply divided.” They are divided on no issue other than a means to greater production of our current safe & healthy food supplies & an efficient distribution throughout the world to stem hunger & need in areas that can not produce as much as others with a surplus.
The premise that GMO’s are not safe is an alarmist’s view & supported by the countless millions who eat GMO’s daily, feed the same to their children & families, but do not understand a thing about agriculture & farming. The scientific community is not deeply divided. The scientific community, almost to a man, can not & has not found anything wrong, nutritionally speaking about GMO’s. Corn, potatoes, tomatoes & bananas for example, along with myriads of other fruits, vegetables & grains if not all known to man, have been genetically modified, developed & changed for taste, resilience to pests & spoilage & greater production for centuries. We eat & enjoy the benefits of this wonderful & bountiful evolution at the hand of man more & more each day, week & year. Through science & man’s intervention, these fruits & vegetables on which we rely are bigger, sweeter, more plentiful & most of all more nutritious than ever. Are you hipster, vegan, whole food hypocrites not aware that the indigenous native cultures & people of every land on this planet including the native Americans, have been doing this for millennia? This does not even speak to their farming & culturing seafood & shellfish with man-made oyster beds & the like to produce many more & much bigger specimens more often than would ever occur naturally. This practice goes back beyond antiquity.
Nothing but hype here folks. Our food is better than ever & much more prolific, as a result of bio-engineering. We are not even close to discussing a Frankenfood as the doom sayers would have you believe. Our food is bigger, tastier, more plentiful & more nutritious than it has ever been in the history of man & agriculture. All thanks to trial & error, but mostly science & painstaking adherence to decades & centuries of advances in farming, agriculture & horticulture as a whole. In just a few decades, the wine in California surpassed centuries of wine making & the vineyards of France. Was that by chance? No, it was due entirely to diligence, science & painstaking work, patience & ultimately interference by the hand of man. The result is nothing but positive. The same positive results are observed & tasted in the crops from our hard working farmers today who have only managed to survive through science.
There is general scientific agreement that food on the market from genetically modified crops is not inherently riskier to human health than conventional food.[4][114][115] Some studies have called to question the safety of these foods. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (“AAEM”) released a position paper calling for a moratorium on GM foods pending independent long term studies to investigate the role of GM foods on human health.[116][117] The authors asserted that “there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects.” The paper also cited numerous animal studies showing adverse effects and posited that the biological plausibility, as defined by Hill’s criteria, in light of this data is that adverse health effects are also caused in humans.[118] A 2011 study found maternal/fetal exposure associated with GM crops in Quebec.[119] A well publicized study, sharply criticized by industry, found that rats fed GM corn developed tumors and organ damage.[120]
The starting point for assessing GM food safety is to evaluate its similarity to the non-modified version. Further testing is then done on a case-by-case basis to ensure that concerns over potential toxicity, allergenicity, possible gene transfer to humans or genetic outcrossing to other organisms are satisfied.[6] Although labeling of GMO products in the marketplace is required in 64 countries,[121] the US does not require this. The FDA’s policy is to require a label given significant differences in composition or health impacts. They have not identified such differences in any food currently approved for sale.
Opponents such as the advocacy groups Organic Consumers Association, the Union of Concerned Scientists, andGreenpeace claim risks have not been adequately identified and managed, and they have questioned the objectivity of regulatory authorities.[citation needed] Some medical and environmental groups claim that the potential long-term impact on human health have not been adequately assessed and propose mandatory labeling[123] or a moratorium on such products. The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), states that there is no scientific consensus on the relative safety of GM food, and that because of research issues due to intellectual property rights, limited access to research material, differences in methods, analysis and the interpretation of data, it is not possible to state if GMOs are generally safe or unsafe, and instead must be a judged on case-by-case basis.[124] The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council also determined that GM food safety needs to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, and noted the limited ability of scientists to predict “adverse consequences of genetic change”
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What? we have never studied any of our food? I mean, we have genetically modified, through trial and error, every morcel of food we eat that was all created through artificial selection and we know nothing on how it would affect us. Find this hard to believe. Anyway, its nice to hear that we are starting genitically modifying our food in a more controlled manner. Afterall, with the swelling population of now 7 billion and rising to 10 billion in the next fifty years, its good to know we may have a method of producing more nutrient dense food. I am personally a bit tired of the fact that now millions of people are starving and that number is also increasing exponentially with population growth and the loss of productive land. Was there a point to this documentary other than showing how the creators are completely ignorant and without a shred of foresite and a complete lack of backsite? maybe someone can fill me in.
I like most of what you have to say, though ” I am personally a bit tired of the fact that now millions of people are
starving and that number is also increasing exponentially with
population growth and the loss of productive land.”
I would argue that so many people are starving because of the unequal distribution of food, for ecologic and political reasons. Industrial farming contributes to the loss of productive land by allocating so much of it to the production of mono-cultures for animal feed.
The reality is that even with a rapidly increasing population, we have more than enough arable land available to provide nutrition for everyone.
It boils down to economics and the sick capacity of mankind to ignore atrocity.
The
U.S. population has historically placed a considerable degree of trust in the
regulatory oversight provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its
agencies. There is little tradition of people having a close relationship with
their food, with the overwhelming majority of people having bought their food
in supermarkets for years. But the 2003 survey by the Pew Research Center
showed that even in the U.S., 55% see GM food as “bad” food. A 2010
survey found that over one third of U.S. consumers were very or extremely
concerned about GM food, a 3% reduction from 2008. You can take action by
staying informed and spreading the word at http://geneticallyengineeredfoodnews.com
The
U.S. population has historically placed a considerable degree of trust in the
regulatory oversight provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its
agencies. There is little tradition of people having a close relationship with
their food, with the overwhelming majority of people having bought their food
in supermarkets for years. But the 2003 survey by the Pew Research Center
showed that even in the U.S., 55% see GM food as “bad” food. A 2010
survey found that over one third of U.S. consumers were very or extremely
concerned about GM food, a 3% reduction from 2008. You can take action by
staying informed and spreading the word at http://geneticallyengineeredfoodnews.com