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There is certainly no scientific consensus that GMO/transgenic food causes cancer; if anything the community believes it does not. Perhaps we currently have flaws in implementation (e.g., Roundup-ready crops could lead to increased human exposure to the herbicide), but why is GMO itself a problem? Adding genes from harmless cold water fish to harmless standard tomatoes in order to produce cold resistant tomatoes, for example, seems to be a safe procedure. I would love to be pointed to credible studies that contradict my way of thinking about this.



You are right about consensus. But I invite you to investigate how big the cancer industry is in worth/year and historically how it all has been created, and who owns it. Also to study the history of the American food industrialisation. Also to investigate who owns and influences the top media sources in the world. To be clear the point I was trying to make wasn't "GMO is the only cause of cancer" or "Genetical modifications on foods produce cancer". My point is "Current GMO products consumption is one of the contributors to cancer" - I'm not stating how, I'm stating that it has an effect. I know far more about the effects of meat and dairy than I do about GMO. But somewhere to get started would be here: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-gmos-safe-the-case-of-ro... (The page has links to all the scientific sources cited)


This is pure quackery with no scientific basis.




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