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RE: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): Are Genetically Modified Animals Or Plants Safe to Eat?

in #health8 years ago

Yes, I think GMOs are safe to eat and will be a huge benefit to the growing human population of our planet.
I have absolutely no problem eating a modified plant or animal product.

I think you've correctly identified why people distrust GMOs, it's a new technology. However, long term studies have been done, and as you've put in your post, determined to be as safe as 'non-GMO' foods.

The thing is GMO means: genetically modified organism, it says nothing of how that modification was achieved. Everything we eat has been modified by humans.
Ever seen a 100% unmodified banana?
Good luck eating that tiny, seed stuffed, thing.

Up until now, it's been the shot-gun approach to modification of cross-breeding and selection, which is NOT inherently safer, it is inherently less efficient.

GMO rice can save millions of children from vitamin A deficiency, which leads to blindness, GMO maize can grow in harsher conditions, GMO cassava is resistant to famine causing disease!

These products primarily benefit the poor. The activists who speak out against them can afford to buy "organic" "natural" products, and vitamin supplements (if they want expensive urine); they sow mistrust and misinformation because they can afford to, because they don't understand how trans-genetic technology works and are scared.

One final note: that cow you've featured is a Belgian Blue, a result of traditional breeding, and not a trans-genetic GMO cow.

Sources:
Banana
Belgian Blue
Golden Rice
GM Maize

If anyone has a problem with using wikipedia as a source, just follow the source links contained in those pages.

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Perfectly explained about gmo but the bull is also a gmo. Belgian Blue is a good species of meat that's why scientists choosed this breed for gmo.
http://www.adguk-blog.com/2013/08/monstrous-gmo-bulls-now-reality.html

Yes, it's a GMO in the same way that all cattle are GMOs; traditional breeding and selecting is a form of genetic manipulation, however it is not a trans-genic GMO it's been produced the same way all other breeds of cattle have been. It is good for meat, though with all of that extra muscle perhaps not as good for the cow part of its existence. A bit like pure-bred dogs and cats with all of their warped bodies and genetic (hereditary) problems.

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