http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?Feed=OBR&Date=20050523&ID=4837225
On the face, genetically modified foods sound like a great idea. Take some fish dna, inject it into a plant and create a more healthy vegetarian food source. Ok, some people wouldn't say that sounds smart even on the surface because it is "unnatural".
Regardless of your religious views about genetic selection, there are objective investigations that can and have been done. Until such tests can be funded by companies that don't have a vested interest in the results, however, I'm not sure we can learn anything from them.
The furor concerns a type of corn that has been genetically altered to protect itself against corn rootworm. The Monsanto study found that rats fed the biotech corn had smaller kidneys and blood composition different from rats not fed the corn.
The study showing problems... is just one of many such alarming results that have been distorted, denied, or covered up," said Jeffrey Smith, the author of a book about Monsanto and its development of biotech crops.
"Other GM (genetically modified) rat studies revealed liver problems, potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, damaged immune systems, inhibited organ development, stomach lesions and unexplained deaths," he said. "The technology of inserting genes into crops... is fraught with dangerous, hard-to-detect side-effects."