GMOs not only interact with chemicals inside of your body in unnatural and unpredictable ways sometimes, they force evolution in often detrimental ways GMOs should've never been created. Humans shouldn't try to play god.

If that was true, then I think we'd have figured it out by now, considering GMOs are the most tested agricultural product in history, and they've been around for almost 20 years

20? That's all you think? No, man, they've been around for much longer... GMOs destroy crops and stuff too All of the studies I've seen have been conveniently funded by the companies being tested

Don't bother arguing with conspiracy theorists.

I think they say that because, obviously, GMOs don't kill you on the spot. I think it's more like damage over time. Why is cancer so common now? It was extremely rare before just recently. I've just been theorizing, and I think it has something to do with the food that is now disgusting, genetically modified, and loaded with chemicals. I mean look at the ingredients to a box of store bought cookies, half the stuff on there you can't even pronounce!

Those are chemicals, and they don't really have anything to do with the genetics if the food. It's all the processing and preservatives that are bad.

[i] *wipes hand; it smells of mortality* [/i] Cancer has always been around. But think about this: Once upon a time weak mutations in human bloodlines died off and the superior ones continued on. Now everyone lives thanks to health care. So the seeming increase in cancer could be as simple as there are more of us so there's more cancer, or it could actually be increased due to failed genetic mutations continuing on when they should die.

I don't know. Cancer's always been around but now it's EXTREMELY common. It was very rare until just recently. You could be right, but I still think it's due to the chemical loaded food we're eating.

Which is unrelated to the genetics of the food

Well that's the thing, you don't know that. They take out a seemingly "useless" gene. Then they replace that gene with an artificial one. This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and viral genes that do not occur in nature nor through traditional selective breeding methods. Most developed countries do not consider GMOs safe. Including Australia, Japan, India, and all the countries in the EU. In the U.S., the government has approved GMOs based on studies conducted by the same corporations that produce them. In reality, GM foods are not safe to eat. The GM transformation process can produce mutagenic effects that can disrupt or alter gene structure, disturb normal gene regulatory processes, or cause effects at other levels of biological structure and function. These effects can result in unintended changes in composition, including new toxins or allergens and/or disturbed nutritional value. The GM gene product (I.e. The Bt toxin in GM insecticidal crops.) can be toxic or allergenic on it's own! Changes in farming practices linked to the use of a GMO can result in toxic residues. I.e. Higher levels of crop contamination with the herbicide Roundup are an inevitable result of using GM Roundup Ready crops. Altered chemical value is of concern for two reasons: first, because it directly affects the health of the animal/human that eats it through providing an excess or shortage of certain nutrients; and second, because it is an indicator that the GM process has altered biochemical processes in the plant. This hints at other unexpected and unidentified changes have also occurred that may also impact the human/animals health. For example altered toxicity. Many experiments have been done, and I can give you a LONG list of them but here's just one. http://www.gmoseralini.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/GES-final-study-19.9.121.pdf This is an experiment done on rats that showed [u]an increase in tumors/malignant growths when fed GM food.[/u] This is what I'm talking about; I can provide a whole list of experiments done that show numerous health problems that showed up after being on a diet of GM food. However this one is pressing to me. It's shows that GMOs may very well be the reason that cancer rates are at an extreme high.

This was in GMO OMG the rats developed tumors all over their body in a short amount of time.

The other studies you're talking about may have merit to them, but the Seralini study you cited is a [i]very[/i] highly criticized study that actually got retracted from the first journal it was published in, because the journal, and most of the scientific community, decided that it was a flawed study and came to poorly made conclusions. It's not at all a good study to look at as evidence of GMOs being harmful.

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Yeah every one of those are backed and funded by the corporations that make the GMOs. Think about it, when big tobacco was "safe" and cigarettes were healthy for you, all the studies said so too, because all of them were funded and ran by big tobacco.

[quote]Think about it, when big tobacco was "safe" and cigarettes were healthy for you, all the studies said so too, because all of them were funded and ran by big tobacco.[/quote] Citation needed. No websites, blogs, etc. I want peer-reviewed articles from that time period that back up this claim.

Dude. That's true. You don't need a citation for that.

Bullshit, that's not how science works. If it's as well documented as you claim, why would there be any problem posting peer-reviewed publications on the matter?