Personally, I'm not so concerned about the safety of GMO foods for human consumption as I am about the collaborative corporate/government relationship surrounding them.
It's been little reported that before more recent hubbub over whether to require labeling for GMO foods, that the GMO industry lawyers won cases (California?) preventing others from stating the simple fact that their products were GMO free on relevant labels. The court decided that the mere possibility that consumers might infer something about GMO products from this statement of fact warranted legal intervention.
Also, that the WikiLeaks files exposed that U.S. Ambassadors were officially directed to act as lobbyists (and extortionists) on behalf of GMO producers internationally doesn't sit to well either.
I suspect people would be less likely to leap to fearful conclusions if the industry had been more open to start with. Shady arrogant shite doesn't seem to have done much to build trust.
Oh, and then there's the patenting lifeforms and attempting to corner the market on food issues...
Forcing family farms to destroy heirloom seed stocks ... while conversely patenting every existing strain they can ...
Something life threatening seems to be going on, it just might not be the foods themselves.
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