Can We Really Trust GM Food?

The article on the following link was written by Arpad Pusztai in June 2001. In the article, he discusses the health effects of GM food and also shows results of GM food tests on animals. The author feels that information regarding GM food are scarce. The author mentioned that GM food has the chance to cause bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics and create allergies for certain people.

A GM tomato test was performed on rats. The rats between control group and GM-fed were not a big different, however, after two weeks, seven out of forty rats died for unspecified reasons. Also, rat’s digest ability was decreased after GM corn. Unfortunately, this was a poorly designed study, further questions were not valid.

There were many disputes about GM food, however, many studies are showing risks of GM food instead of actual harm. For example, even if GM food is harmful to animals, it doesn’t mean it’s harmful to human, or many health organizations have allowed and tested the safeness of GM food.

http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html