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persistentone22 · M
I used to think GMO was great. As I became very expert in nutrition I started to understand that it is actually very dangerous. The problem is that by skipping over - or introducing new - gene sequences we are both enabling bad things and disabling good things that can have extremely unintended consequences.
We know by virtue of a long history between humans and particular plant species which are safe and which are dangerous. If we genetically modify those, we lose that safety record. We then distribute an apple that looks like an apple, but actually has new genetic sequences that may have totally unpredictable side effects, and those might not show up directly. If a given gene sequence increases your risk of some cancer type by 2%, no one will detect that.
We know by virtue of a long history between humans and particular plant species which are safe and which are dangerous. If we genetically modify those, we lose that safety record. We then distribute an apple that looks like an apple, but actually has new genetic sequences that may have totally unpredictable side effects, and those might not show up directly. If a given gene sequence increases your risk of some cancer type by 2%, no one will detect that.
