Thread: Genetically Modified Food is Really, Really Bad for Rats - and Maybe YOU!!!

Originally Posted by StonedApe

Is that really all they do? Because from what I understand the modifications make the plants resistant to super pesticides that kill just about everything. Some of them make it so the plants make their own pesticide.

I think whether they cause cancer or not needs to be further researched, as do the effects on humans generally. The way the FDA has handled the issue has been pathetic, probably because the people working for the FDA at the time were ex employees of the companies making money on GM foods.

However the way we are using this technology is having negative environmental impacts. I'm lazy and am not gonna look up sources but it is. The technology itself could probably be useful, but it seems obvious to me that we need to do more testing before we go planting things that could potentially fuck up entire ecosystems.

If you read my posts, I've already covered this. Obviously if the protein does something harmful then there will be harmful effects. I'm just defending benign proteins in benign hosts.