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Apr 27, 2015 · Genetically modified foods are often regarded as "unnatural" and approached with distrust. Commentator Tania Lombrozo considers the psychology behind these reactions.
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Jun 8, 2016 · While there is no evidence that consuming GMO foods harms human health, the larger impact on agricultural practices and the environment is not clear from the available evidence.
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- The Flawed Processes of GMO Risk Assessment
- The Dangers of GMOs
- The True Purpose of GMOs
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Some of my concerns with GMOs, however, are “just” practical. I have read numerous GMO risk assessment applications. These are the documents that governments rely on to ‘prove’ their safety. Though these documents are quite long and quite complex, their length is misleading in that they primarily ask trivial questions. Furthermore, the experiments ...
Aside from grave doubts about the quality and integrity of risk assessments, I also have specific science-based concerns over GMOs. These concerns are mostly particular to specific transgenes and traits. Many GMO plants are engineered to contain their own insecticides. These GMOs, which include maize, cotton and soybeans, are called Bt plants. Bt p...
Science is not the only grounds on which GMOs should be judged. The commercial purpose of GMOs is not to feed the world or improve farming. Rather, they exist to gain intellectual property (i.e. patent rights) over seeds and plant breeding and to drive agriculture in directions that benefit agribusiness. This drive is occurring at the expense of fa...
May 18, 2016 · A massive National Academy of Science review of hundreds of studies on genetically engineered (GE) food crops, comparing the US, where the crops have been used heavily for 20 years, and Europe,...
Jan 9, 2024 · Although most notable organizations and research suggest that GMO foods are safe and sustainable, some people claim they may harm your health and the environment. GMOs, short for genetically...
May 17, 2016 · In this chapter, the committee examines the evidence that substantiates or negates specific hypotheses and claims about the health risks and benefits associated with foods derived from genetically engineered (GE) crops. There are many reviews and official statements about the safety of foods from GE crops (for example, see Box 5-1), but to conduct a fresh examination of the evidence, the ...
Aug 10, 2015 · GMO toxicity: fears and scientific analysis. After genetically modified foods were introduced in the United States a few decades ago, people independently reported toxic effects caused by GMOs.
