Genetically Modified Organisms are unsafe for people and the environment.

One thing we can all agree on is that no one is eager to buy gene-altered food. Genetically modified foods do nothing for the public. They provide no extra nutrition, flavor, or safety. [7] Instead, these food products only offer risks, which include potential toxicity, allergy reactions, and lower nutritional value. [7] GMO's do more harm than good for humans and our environment. On top of that they are not required to be labeled, so many are eating GM food unknowingly. This is carefully calculated, because polls show that 87% of people would be leery of them. [8] I will outline major reasons why this practice is a huge threat to our health and the world. 1. UNTESTED : Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are one ofï¿½the most dangerous and radical changesï¿½to our food supply. [1] These largely unregulated ingredients are found in 60-70% of the foods in the US. Many consumers believe that the FDA approves GM foods through rigorous, in-depth, long-term studies. [1] The scary fact is that there are no safety testing requirements. Instead the agency relies on research from companies like Monsanto. 2. CORRUPTION : So why do we have all these farms, and why is our food made with GMO's if it is so bad? That can't happen, right? Wrong. Monsanto has made us the unknowing guinea pigs for foods that make them a lot of money and offer us nothing but risk. [7] This company has a history of toxic contamination, deceiving the public, and putting harmless small farmers in this country out of business. Monsanto's research is meticulously designed to avoid finding problems, helping their company, but threatening the public. [1] Monsanto was declared the worst company of 2011 by Natural Society for threatening both human health and the environment. [2] Monsanto is currently responsible for 90% of the genetically engineered seed on the United States market. [2] Before the FDA decided to allow GMO's into food without labeling, FDA scientists had repeatedly warned that GM foods can create unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems. [3] They urged long-term safety studies, but were ignored. This is concerning news for the people who most likely unknowingly eating this food on a daily basis. 3. RESEARCH/HIDDEN DANGERS : Unlike safety evaluations for drugs, there are no human clinical trials of GM foods. [3] There was one Human Feeding Experiment, which revealed that the genetic material inserted into GM soy transfers into bacteria living inside our intestines continues to function well after the fact. [3] This means that long after we stop eating GM foods, we may still have their proteins inside us. This could mean: *If the antibiotic gene stays in our bodies, it can create super diseases, resistant to antibiotics. [3] *If the gene that creates Bt-toxin in GM corn were to transfer, it might turn our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories. [3] What's even sadder is that humans are the guinea pigs of what will come out of eating GM foods for decades. Many of our upcoming generations are eating it from birth. It has been proven that GMO foods pose a higher risk for children, as their little bodies are more susceptible to these harmful effects. [6] There are countless documented research showing dangerous affects on the human body. Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality [4] The study showed that after feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, GM fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups. 4. MASSIVE PESTICIDE POLLUTION : GM crops are a major reason for the expansion of pesticide use in recent years. [7] They require massive amounts of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides which are poisonous to our world, and our health. The most famous and dangerous one is called Roundup which dramatically increased in use, and is causing a growing epidemic of resistant weeds, which now infest millions of acres of America's cropland. [7] Pesticides cause a variety of health problems, pollute our waters, food, air, and threaten natural wildlife. 5. CROSS-BREEDING : Once the mutant genes are out of the bag, there is no going back. Cross-breeding is guaranteed with GM alfalfa and corn. [1] (The U. S. D. A. claims to be figuring out ways to avoid this happening, but by then the damage may already be done. ) [1] This is threatening food that is meant to be organic. When G. E. alfalfa is widely grown, since many dairy cows eat dried alfalfa (hay), and the contamination of organic alfalfa means the milk of animals fed with that hay can no longer be called organic. [1] These GMO seeds will end up contaminating the food supply, and if years down the road there is severe epidemic problems, it will be too late to reverse. Are we ready to take that chance? I'm here to state that no, we aren't, and should not support GMO foods. The only way to stop GMO contamination is to stop growing GMO's. Resources . http://www.seedsofdeception.com......[1] . http://naturalsociety.com...... [2] . http://www.responsibletechnology.org......[3] . http://www.responsibletechnology.org...... [4] . http://www.huffingtonpost.com...... [5] . http://www.seedsofdeception.com...... [6] . http://www.huffingtonpost.com...... [7] . http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...... [8]