Questions and Answers about GM Food arguments

What are the common arguments on GM Food?

Feb 21, 2009 by twinmermaid12 | Posted in Biology

Question:

Answer: The only two valid arguments against them I know of are:

1. Some might be harmful due to unintended consequences. For example, a GMO using a protein from peanuts turned out to be allergenic.

2. The inserted gene might escape. This is for most

Weise Ente | Feb 21, 2009

None that are particularly valid.
Humans started GMing foods during the Agricultural Revolution through artificial selection.
Modern GM food only chooses beneficent genes, avoiding possible deleterious genes or other "bad" ones.
themanifoldcuriosity | Feb 21, 2009



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Anti-GMO crowd reacts to decision

17.05.12

Activists opposed to genetically engineered foods are not singing the same tune when it comes to reaction to the Boulder County commissioners’ Dec. 20 decision to allow additional genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on taxpayer-funded open space.

On one side, leaders of the GM Know group are alluding to keeping up the fight in terms of voting down open space taxes and bringing in strong anti- GMO commissioners. But on the other side, GMO Free Boulder seems to have been pleased by aspects of the decision and is willing to work with farmers to find solutions.

After the commissioners’ unanimous vote on Tuesday to approve a cropland policy allowing genetically modified sugar beets to be added to the crops grown on county land (GM corn was allowed in 2003), anti-GMO activists said they weren’t surprised by the decision, but they differed on the next steps.

Source: Boulder Weekly

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