Question by agaga: Are GM food poisonous to Mankind?
If Yes, how does it affect the body?

Best answer:

Answer by TJ Baltimore
In and of themselves, no.

Genetic modification uses the same tools that nature uses to increase food production, nutrition, etc. In other words, hopefully it will improve the human standard of living.

The selective breeding, restrictive endonucleases, and other tools and technologies which are used to create GM foods have been used by viruses for billions of years and have already contributed to human evolution. Look up “horizontal gene transfer.” Genetic engineering uses these tools in a more controlled and hypothetically safer environment.

Of course anything can harm you, even too much water–it’s called drowning–and so there needs to be extensive testing of GM foods before they are publicly available. Can we trust the FDA to perform sufficiently extensive testing? I personally feel that we can rely on nominally disinterested FDA testing compared to the companies themselves which developed the GM foods and have profits at stake. But that wasn’t your question.

Another question that you didn’t ask: are companies like Monsanto ethical for created GM foods which cannot produce seeds, therefore making farmer come back again and again to buy seeds, often driving the farmers to poverty and suicide? Especially when they work with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as the sole seed-providers to farmers struggling and dying in third-world countries?

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