Sometimes you encounter an option that is self-evident and which you do not need explanation or further evidence before deciding. Whether to eat foods containing GMOs for some people is one of those. So this article is for those who need guidance or have opted to eat GMO impregnated foods but still wonder.
Clearly GMOs in the food supply is controversial and a subject of debate. To be clear I will say that GMO impregnated foods are safe as the FDA applies the term “safe.” What that basically means is that a substance does not proximately cause death or injury. “Safe” does not mean “harmless” or “less harmful”. The cumulative effect of a safe substance can still be molecular damage or transcription errors in DNA. Think of having medical diagnostic x-rays of your body produced. When that is done a state health department has determined it to be “safe”. Notice however that those administering the procedure shield themselves behind protective barriers during the safe procedure.
Like so many health related issues there are reports or studies that appear to directly contradict each other. The GMO issue is no different. The reason for this is that ethical considerations bar the cloning of humans to be test subjects and controls for the purpose of measuring risk of a single variable by confining them to a controlled environment to observe the effect of that one variable during their entire lives. Thus, the evidence becomes like a polygraph examination -- the conclusion is not an absolute but only a subjective interpretation of the evidence. Who pays for the research often affects the bias or subjectivity of the researcher.
In the realm of GMO foods it is the food manufacturers who have been the financial backers of much of the research. This is a consequence of them being the ones seeking approval from the FDA which requires them to conduct the research. They also have access to the raw data produced before the subjective interpretation.
This is where my analysis gets very simple. I am not going to bother with a meta-analysis or citations to any particular study. Instead I offer one anecdote for you to use in deciding whether to eat foods impregnated with GMOs.
One day I was having lunch during a professional meeting and conversing with others seated alongside me. Two of the gentlemen worked for an Indiana based food processor. We got onto the subject of GMOs and ethics. After listening to their defense of their jobs following my likening of them to Mengele I asked one question: Do you eat the GMO foods you make?
The first gentleman replied that he does not and does not intend to eat them. The second affirmed the same and also included that there was no way that he does not allow his children to consume any nor his wife, especially when she was pregnant.
That was years ago. I have not done any research on GMO foods since then because I had already talked to the designers who had access to all the raw data on GMO foods. Their decision to not use the products they design, out of consideration for the well-being of their families and themselves, was all the information I needed to decide.
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