Warning: Danger to your health!

GMOs may be hazardous to our health.

Companies proisvoditeli of GM seeds has a patent on the product and not allow independent researchers with their material unless they are under their control. They claim that GMOs are safe. Only in recent years appeared independent studies that prove that GMOs cause damage to the liver, kidneys, immune system and ability of reproduction in experimental animals

Disease resistance There are many viruses, fungi and bacteria that cause plant diseases. Plant biologists are working to create plants with genetically engineered resistance to these diseases

   Nutrition Malnutrition is common in third world countries where poor people rely on a crop such as rice for staple food of the diet. However, rice does not contain enough of all the necessary nutrients to prevent malnutrition. If rice can be genetically engineered to contain additional vitamins and minerals, nutrient deficiencies can be alleviated. For example, blindness due to vitamin A deficiency is a common problem in third world countries. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Institute of Plant Sciences have created a strain of "golden" rice containing an unusually high content of beta-carotene (vitamin A). Since this rice was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a non-profit organization, the Institute hopes to offer the golden rice seed free to any third world country that requests it. Plans are underway to develop a golden rice that also has increased iron content. However, the financial support that funded the creation of these two types of rice was not renewed, perhaps because of the energetic-GM food protesters in Europe and this nutrient-enhanced rice may not be available to all.

Many allergic children in the U.S. and Europe have developed life-threatening allergies to peanuts and other foods. There is a possibility that the introduction of a gene in a plant may create a new allergen or cause an allergic reaction in susceptible individuals. The proposal to include a gene from Brazil nuts into soybeans was abandoned for fear of causing unexpected allergic reaktsii31. Extensive testing of GM foods may be required to avoid the possibility of harm to consumers with food allergies. Labelling of GM foods and food products will acquire new meaning, which we will discuss later.

 Unknown effects on human health There is growing concern that introducing foreign genes into food plants may have unintended and negative impacts on human health. A recent article published in Lancet examined the effects of GM potatoes on the digestive tract of rats. This study argues that there are significant differences in the intestines of rats fed GM potatoes and rats fed unaltered potatoes. But critics say that this document and the monarch butterfly data, is flawed and does not hold up to scientific examination. Moreover, the gene was introduced into potato lectin snowdrop flowers, a substance known to be toxic to mammals. Scientists who have created this potato variety has chosen to use only the lectin gene testing methodology, and these potatoes were never intended for human or animal consumption

Overall, with the exception of possible allergies, scientists believe that GM foods pose no risk to human health.