I am doing a research paper on organic food, and GMO foods has crosses my path very often. Does anyone know of any experiments apart from the Gilles-Eric Séralini experiment, that proves GMO foods can be bad for you?
Good for you to explore this issue dispassionately. There are no studies that “prove” GM foods are either good or bad for anyone. That’s not the way science works. Science can only judge the degree of risk. For example, there are hundreds of people who die every year from eating organic food because of fecal material used in its growing process. Thousands–tens of thousands–get sick. Yet it’s not “proven” that organic food is bad for you. It can be in certain situations. All you can prove is “relative safety”. There have been close to 3,000 studies of GM foods, and 98% show that GM foods pose no health hazards that are unique to GM foods…in other words, they are the same health hazards presented by eating organic or other conventional foods. There are a handful of studies in very weak pay for play journals like the Seralini fiasco paper that suggest some possible health hazards in certain animal groups. But none has been in a major (not a play for play) journal and not one has been replicated (while the safety studies have been replicated many dozens of times). So the short answer is “no”.
I am doing a research paper on organic food, and GMO foods has crosses my path very often. Does anyone know of any experiments apart from the Gilles-Eric Séralini experiment, that proves GMO foods can be bad for you?
Good for you to explore this issue dispassionately. There are no studies that “prove” GM foods are either good or bad for anyone. That’s not the way science works. Science can only judge the degree of risk. For example, there are hundreds of people who die every year from eating organic food because of fecal material used in its growing process. Thousands–tens of thousands–get sick. Yet it’s not “proven” that organic food is bad for you. It can be in certain situations. All you can prove is “relative safety”. There have been close to 3,000 studies of GM foods, and 98% show that GM foods pose no health hazards that are unique to GM foods…in other words, they are the same health hazards presented by eating organic or other conventional foods. There are a handful of studies in very weak pay for play journals like the Seralini fiasco paper that suggest some possible health hazards in certain animal groups. But none has been in a major (not a play for play) journal and not one has been replicated (while the safety studies have been replicated many dozens of times). So the short answer is “no”.