Gmos: Unknown Negative Health Consequences

Though one might argue that the relatively recent developments in the field of GMOs have the inherent risk of unknown negative health consequences, the claimed “ side effects can be described as little more than unsubstantiated. Since their conception in the mid 1990s, GMOs have been extensively studied, with over 1700 peer reviewed studies published between 2003 and 2013 alone. Hundreds of those were independently funded, with no conflict of interest or compensation from the Agriculture Industry. One could also argue that GMOs can, in some cases, be even safer than Organic produce. This is due to the fact that the amount of product testing before a specific strain is allowed to be put on the market is considerably more rigorous in comparison to unmodified organisms. When these GMOs are tested, they are occasionally …show more content…
GMOs themselves also date back much further than the late 20th century, with products like the famed “Winter Wheat” mentioned previously being planted more than half a century earlier. Though not a modification in the modern sense, strains like the weather resistant grain were created through a process with an identical end result known as selective breeding. Selective breeding is the cross pollination of plants with more desirable traits to create improved versions of those plants. It was practiced unintentionally thousands of years ago, due to a lack of understanding of the genome. However, it was soon understood in practice that traits were somehow passed down through generations of crops. Over a long period of time, the yields, insect resistance, and durability of various deliberately cross pollinated plants would improve. Each planted strain would be only slightly improved from the last, but results would become noticeable after a significant number of