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Professor of Plant and Food Sciences
Agree
There are at least 42 publications extractable from the PubMed database that describe research reports of feeding studies of GM feed or food products derived from GM crops. The overwhelming majority of publications report that GM feed and food produced no significant differences in the test animals. The two studies reporting negative results were published in 1998 and 1999 and no confirmation of these effects have since been published.
Biology Professor
Agree
Genetically modified foods are as safe to eat as foods made from plants modified by more traditional methods of plant breeding. In fact, they are very probably safer, simply because they undergo testing that has never been required for food plants modified either by traditional breeding techniques or by mutagenesis, both of which can alter a plant's chemical composition.
Evolutionary Biologist, Writer, Atheism Activist
Mostly Agree
When one uses rhetoric like 'Frankenstein's plants', you could call a maize cob a Frankenstein plant, but every one is quite happy to eat maize cobs. ... The reaction has been as if people believe genetically modified plants are poisonous... Well anything can [be]. Genetic engineering can introduce genes from one species of plant or animal into the genetic make-up of another species of crop plant, but [this fact] does not inherently make it bad or good.
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