Five reasons why you should love GMOs

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 4:36 pm

July 20, 2016 by Matthew

Bill_Nye — Bill Nye was skeptical of GMOs, but once he learned about the science, he was completely sold on them.

5) GMOs are perfectly safe!

There is absolutely no reason to be concerned with eating GMOs. Study after study have shown they are completely harmless for human consumption. Misinformation about GMOs and fear mongering have perpetuated the myth they are harmful. GMOs may also elicit some feelings of disgust. As Stefaan Blancke explains in his Scientific American article:

GMOs probably trigger disgust because people view genetic modification as a contamination. The effect is enforced when the introduced DNA comes from a species that is generally deemed disgusting, such as rats or cockroaches. However, DNA is DNA, whatever its source.

Just because something sounds disgusting or scary, it doesn’t make it so. Our brains like to operate on intuition, which can be very beneficial. However, when we analyze GMOs from a scientific standpoint, there is absolutely no reason to fear them. Given all the positives about GMOs, we shouldn’t just not fear them, we should love them!

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