Genetically Modified Organisms are unsafe for people and the environment.

Who are the people opposing genetic modification? Americans, Europeans and rich people are. The United States alone has so much food that 1/3 of Americans are obese [19. http://www.cdc.gov...]. People are asking what the point is in GMO's. "They're unsafe", "I'm going to get cancer", "We don't need them, we already have enough food". Of course Americans want to make GMOs illegal because they're afraid of the potential side effects. But many of these claims are not based on hard cold research and statistics. It's also possible to make safe GM crops and it's also possible to ban the crops that are harmful.My opponent says GMOs can't cure diseases. But they already have, and they still have the potential to do so. Has it ever come across your mind that malnutrition is a disease? The GM banana has saved lives of millions of people in Asian and African countries. It is in fact curing the malnutrition disease because these people are now able to eat something and not die as a result. My opponent says that GMOs caused diseases. How is this true?My opponent keeps saying they're unsafe to eat. And yet I said that gene-transfer is a very low possibility. The cancer that might result from eating GMOs is not from the GMO itself, but is from the chemicals sprayed on the plants themselves. GMOs are safe to eat. This is not a debate about pesticides, this is a debate solely on GMOs. My opponent keeps bringing up pesticide and herbicide usage time and time and again. GM crops can be engineered to produce their own pesticide. My opponent even says that Round-up is "a natural herbicide" in round 3. And then she says roundup is dangerous. Well what about natural plants? They aren't necessarily safe either. I've highlighted the dangers of natural plants in the previous round. These GM plants don't need those chemical sprayings in order to survive, therefore the argument is irrelevant.My opponent also says GMOs haven't done anything for world hunger. But she did not attack my argument in the other round that the GM banana has saved the lives of many people in Africa. Therefore the argument is sustained. She cannot bring up a new argument saying that GMOs haven't done anything for world hunger, because I have already shown that several times it has and my arguments went uncontested.Many of the other arguments my opponent brings up like the creation of new proteins are all possible to an extent. But when only a few genes are modified out of several thousand, only a few proteins need to be tested, therefore the process for testing them is quite easy and straighforward [20. http://www.gmo-compass.org...]. Testing of these GMOs would mitigate this issue because the effects of these proteins could be examined. And not all GM modification results in a new protein being formed [20]. My opponent says that the process of GM modification from different sources is unnatural. But just because something is unnatural doesn't mean it's safe or unsafe. The modern corn, tomato, grapes can be organic, but they are not natural because humans modified them by conventional breeding.And at the last of my opponent's debate round, she has this to say:"All the more reasons to support the banning!"I dare you to tell that to a sick, malnurished, and dying African child. GMOs have put smiles back on the faces of these families in Africa because it gives them hope, and it gives them their pride back that they can grow what they need to grow.