[Question] Are GMOs actually as bad as people say?

Articles like this are part of the problem.

Safety research was restricted until 2010? Well its been half a decade since then, still waiting on all those dangers to be exposed in peer-reviewed studies...oh wait they did do studies and found no health dangers to date.

GMOs cause cancer? Source used was a long ago debunked example of bad science fishing for the answer they wanted.

GMOs cause allergic outbreaks? The source states one added nut allergen was found and it was caught so early that the seeds never made it out of the lab because there's already systems in place to prevent this issue.

Dependency on corporations? That already existed before GMOs for commercial farming so this is not a GMO issue.

Frankenfoods are bad for people with dietary restrictions? Well then you're already making a choice to refuse certain foods or you have an allergy, which was addressed above. Not a health concern, has nothing to do with food safety.

GMOs bad for environment? This section is just a rant about "what ifs" with no backing evidence for any of the claims.

Superbugs? Well they misunderstand the concept of forming a resistance; the modified genes aren't jumping to the bugs, that's not how biology works. Also this could happen for any pesticide and has nothing to do with the GMO aspect.

The effects are irreversible. This isn't an additional reason, but more of a conclusion, and has no supporting information. Also right in that paragraph they basically say eating "natural" WILL reverse the effects, so I don't know what they're talking about.

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