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by dragonwriter 2548 days ago
> Yes: meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts...

Yes, but if you zoom out to categories that broad, GM food still fits within them. GM foods are not any less like foods eaten tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago than anything else we eat.

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The same was said for meat-fed cows and trans fats. Turned out their consumption had fatal consequences.
> The same was said for meat-fed cows and trans fats.

Meat fed cows and trans fats were products of the same relatively (compared to both the inherent nature and existing regulatory framework requiring proof of safety of novel food element of and faced by GMOs on the former case, and the latter of those in the latter case) uncontrolled evolution of food supply that characterizes the long history of “safe” food against which GMOs are contrasted.

I’m not sure what you mean, but there is no proof of safety for GMOs. No evidence of harm is not evidence of no harm. The only adequate test is the test of time, and testing on the global population is highly irresponsible.