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Eating GMOs
Are they safe, or not?
By Culinate staff
May 27, 2011
Over on Grist, Tom Philpott recently asked a seemingly obvious question: Are genetically modified foods safe to eat?
The question, he concluded, doesn’t have any easy answers. No, eating a GMO-laced burger from a fast-food joint won’t kill you today or tomorrow. But it might have more insidious long-term consequences. And because the U.S. government relies on the GMO industry to police itself, “regulation of the safety of GM food is virtually nil, and research is scant and largely industry-funded.”
Philpott calls for more independent (i.e., non-industry-funded) research into the matter, and wraps things up with a creepy study from Canada that detected the presence of a GM toxin from corn in both pregnant women and their fetuses. What does it mean? No one knows.
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1. by Stephanie - Green Stay at Home Mom on May 27, 2011 at 10:58 AM PDT
It’s very much worth thinking about. It amazes me that long term safety is pretty much assumed. They check for allergy issues, but have pretty much skipped over the long term considerations.
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