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You know, if cooking were a new invention, the controversy over its safety would be deafening. Cooking food changes everything about it. It denatures proteins, causing them to take on properties they never had in nature. It breaks up cellular structure, and destroys the cell walls of plants. It combines foods and causes chemical reactions between those foods that would never happen from eating those foods raw. We are not exposed to the chemicals created through cooking through any other means. We still don't know what most of those chemicals are, nor have they been rigorously tested for safety.

We also have been genetically engineering foods for millennia. Funny, now that the process has become very streamlined and targeted, there is all kinds of fear-mongering. Instead of mixing different organisms and hoping for a result that incorporates the desirable traits while omitting the undesirable traits, we can now specifically identify traits.

You don't want that one gene that makes tomatoes susceptible to a particular blight? Fine, we can get rid of it without affecting any other genes in that tomato! Targeted gene engineering is much less random and unpredictable than the old methods.

Why targeted genome alteration causes such concern, while random genome alteration with unpredictable results is barely noticed is... well, it is an interesting facet of human psychology.

Thank you for taking the time to provide this information. I see no one has responded to your science based replies. That doesn't surprise me because most of these people prefer to live in fear.

It's been more than a few years now, but at one time we studied what happens to green coffee beans during the roasting process. During that process, hundreds of different chemical compounds are created (about 600 iirc) and, at the time, about one-third of them hadn't even been identified. Some of them are extremely toxic. I'm sure most of those fretting over this news about "toxic GMO's" are doing so while enjoying a cup of strong, heavily roasted coffee.

Bingo.

I think people need something to fear. This spoiled rotten country is FULL of liberals always complaining about something, even though really all these things are non-issues.

Every time something new comes up, it’s “bad”.

Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

"Pesticides associated to genetically modified foods (PAGMF), are engineered to tolerate herbicides such as glyphosate (GLYP) and gluphosinate (GLUF) or insecticides such as the bacterial toxin bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between maternal and fetal exposure, and to determine exposure levels of GLYP and its metabolite aminomethyl phosphoric acid (AMPA), GLUF and its metabolite 3-methylphosphinicopropionic acid (3-MPPA) and Cry1Ab protein (a Bt toxin) in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. Blood of thirty pregnant women (PW) and thirty-nine nonpregnant women (NPW) were studied. Serum GLYP and GLUF were detected in NPW and not detected in PW. Serum 3-MPPA and CryAb1 toxin were detected in PW, their fetuses and NPW. This is the first study to reveal the presence of circulating PAGMF in women with and without pregnancy, paving the way for a new field in reproductive toxicology including nutrition and utero-placental toxicities."

Looks like cooking and digestion might not be the remediation we thought they were.