Organic Food over GMO

For my first point of view I will show how hazardous GM food can be to the body. Currently 26 developed countries have banned all forms of GM foods p and many others have significant restrictions (you can find the article here: http://www.thenation.com... ). This was due to the fact that each of the countries preformed multiple tests on GM food and found the outcome to be horrifying on the consumer. The first research of GM food in 1999 was by Dr. Pusztai, a highly respected leader in the field with 35 years employment at the Rowett Institute in Scotland He had been given a UK government grant to be part of the European GM food safety assessment process. When Pusztai fed rats GM potatoes genetically engineered to produce a supposedly safe insecticide called the GNA lectin, all the animals showed potentially pre-cancerous cell growths, smaller brains, livers and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged to the immune system, with most changes appearing after just 10 days. Even more daunting was the fact that other rats fed normal potatoes spiked with GNA lectin even 700 times more GNA lectin than was present in the GM potatoes did not develop these problems. Pusztai's results indicated that the problem lay with genetic engineering process itself and that meant that all GM foods created from the same process, including those already on the market, might produce unintended ill effects (you can find the article here: http://naturalrevolution.org... ). Here are just a few more results of international studies done on GM food: - A preliminary study from the Russian National Academy of Sciences finding that more than half the offspring of mother rats fed GM soy died within three weeks (compared to 9% from mothers fed natural soy). - The estimated 10,000 sheep that died in India within 5-7 days of grazing on GM cotton plants engineered to produce their own Bt-toxin pesticide. - The only human GM feeding study ever published, which shows that the foreign genes inserted into GM food crops can transfer into the DNA of our gut bacteria. This study gives new meaning to the adage, you are what you eat. Long after those GM corn chips you munched are history, your intestinal flora may still be churning out the pesticide GM corn plants have been engineered to produce. But even though there are many more cases of international studies, let's start to focus on America, because in the U.S., mainly because the Pusztai story got virtually no press, and the U.S. mainstream media has failed to discuss other international data suggesting GM foods may pose enormous health risks. The problem with Americans is that they believe that unless the FDA had approved each and every GM food through rigorous, well designed, long-term studies, GM food ingredients would not be allowed in our food supply. The truth is that the FDA has absolutely no GMO safety testing requirements, and GM ingredients are ubiquitous in prepared foods. Unless a processed food contains only organic ingredients, it is highly likely to contain GM ingredients. The research that supports GMO safety is voluntarily provided by companies on their own GM crops and has been described by critics as meticulously designed to avoid finding problems . In fact the FDA has repeatedly warned Congress that GM food can quote "result in unpredictable and hard-to-detect allergens, toxins, new diseases and nutritional problems". Also the American Health Association has preformed their own multiple studies and although the media was VERY hesitant to release any press on them, Americans still find studies done in America more useful over any international study. Some of their animal testing included results such as "infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, faulty insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system." (find this article here: http://www.responsibletechnology.org... ). Seeing as I've thoroughly gotten my first point across I know hand this debate over to the con side for their first argument. I thank you for your patience in my response.