[prunebeads]

Why worry about this? There is no scientific evidence that "genetic modification" (the new kind, rather than the kind of genetic modification that has always been done by breeding) poses any health risks whatsoever.

Search for "french study GMO" on google. Most scientific testings on GMOs aren't done on period long enough to be significant.

A recent submission to HN based on very reliable statistics pointed out that life expectancy in the United States at birth, at age 40, at age 60, at age 65, and even at age 80 has been steadily RISING

This isn't evidence that GMOs are healthy, only that other factors are overriding GMOs effects.

since 1960, so new foodstuffs introduced since then based on GMO science so far don't seem to have net harm for the population in balance with all other social and environmental changes since then.

It doesn't mean that we should let people eat GMOs. Hard drugs (like heroin, cocain, etc) represent a minor cause of death too.

[seiji]

Most scientific testings on GMOs aren't done on period long enough to be significant.

Over a long enough time period, it has been shown all foods lead to death.

[prunebeads]

There are different kinds of death, and the ones mentioned in that study are not really the kind I would like to go through.