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Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe

1. An extensive report from the National Academies of Sciences,

Engineering, and Medicine released today found that genetically
modified (GM) crops are safe for human consumption. The review,
which looked at hundreds of studies conducted since GM crops were first
introduced in the 1990s in the United States, found no direct relationship
between GM foods and health problems such as obesity, diabetes, cancer,
or other diseases.

2. The overwhelming conclusion is, in the words of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, that “consuming foods containing ingredients derived from GM
crops is not more dangerous than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from
crop plants modified by conventional plant improvement techniques.” Major scientific and
governmental organizations agree. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences found that “no
adverse health effects attributed to genetic engineering have been documented in the human
population,” and a report made by the European Commission made the same conclusion. The
World Health Organization has concluded that GM foods “are not probable, nor have been
shown, to present risks for human health.”

3. But the public debate over genetically modified organisms has caused a lot of controversy. In
2015, 57 percent of Americans still believed GM foods were unsafe to eat, according to the
Pew Research Center. The problem is not necessarily that the majority of Americans aren’t
aware of the scientific proves, the problem is that they just don’t believe them: The Pew
survey also found that 67 percent of adults in the U.S. didn’t believe scientists have a full
understanding of the potential health effects of GM crops.

4. The psychologist, Francie Diep, reported that this is very hard for people because
Genetically Engineered crops violate people’s expectations that species are unmodifiable, so
they seem weird, unnatural, and monstrous. That also means scientists who work on altering
organisms’ DNA seem, to many, to be altering something that must be unalterable. For
religious people, that translates into “playing to be God.”
5. James McWilliams also points out how our discomfort about GM foods is promoted by an
impulse to avoid ingesting unfamiliar, and therefore potentially dangerous, substances.
“Unseen, rumored to be dangerous irrespective of dose, and often ingested unknowingly
(without labels), the idea of these ingredients can activate our disgust response,”
McWilliams wrote, “one of the biggest problems is that people don’t know that this
technology makes part for ingredients in 70 percent of the processed foods we eat, so, they
see it as unfamiliar.”

6. The latest proclamation of GM crops’ safety won’t change public opinion any more than the
last several scientific reports. GM crops are still often portrayed as dangerous and
unregulated substances dropped into our food supply by evil companies concerned only with
profits. But many GM crops are engineered to fulfill human needs, such as “golden rice,”
which was made to help children with a chronic vitamin A deficiency in some regions of the
world.

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However, researchers suggest that focusing on the benefits of GM crops — like the new
report’s finding that GM crops can save farmers money — along with an increasing
awareness of their safety, could change how consumers view GM products.

A. People won’t change their minds easily.

B. There are not scientific proves to link diseases to GMOs

C. People don’t know they have been eating GMO’s for a long time.

D. People don’t believe in the safety of GMO’s, and even worse, they don’t believe in scientists.

E. Many people think that: “If it is not “natural”, it is bad”

F. It’s important to continue showing GMO’s benefits to change people’s perceptions little by little.

G. There’s not any difference between Genetically Modified food and conventional food.

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