[exDemMom]

There is also little evidence of harm caused by consuming GM foods.

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GM foods have not been around long enough to determine whether they have harmful long-term health effects on humans.

Humans have been consuming GM foods since we invented agriculture. It is, in fact, quite difficult to find non GMO foods.

Our techniques have improved greatly in the last few decades, but we've been genetically modifying foods for millennia.

[Garth Tater]

"Our techniques have improved greatly in the last few decades, but we've been genetically modifying foods for millennia."

Yes, but those GMO foods were only made by selective breeding or cross-breeding, and the modified genes came from organisms within the recipient's same genus - with maybe a few rare instances of genes coming from a different genus but at least from within the same genetic family.

The difference with our current GMO foods is that many of them are being made by genetic engineering techniques with genes being spliced in that come from not just outside of the recipient's genetic family, but from outside of the recipient's genetic order, class, phylum and even kingdom. We are even splicing genes from viruses and bacteria into our foods. That is not something we've been doing for millennia.

[MD Expat in PA]