Why in so many countries that have food problems is there such a resistance to genetically modified corn?

Question

Serious answers only please. What are the reasons behind greenpeace and so many other people rejecting tis food source?

Answer 1

Scientist testing GM foods have been shocked at their results of animals fed GM foods. Their results showed stunted growth, impaired immune systems, bleeding stomachs, abnormal and potentially precancerous cell growth in the intestines, impaired blood cell development, misshaped cell structures in the liver, pancreas and testicles, altered gene expression and cell metabolism, liver and kidney lesions, partially atrophied livers, inflamed kidneys, less developed organs, reduced digestive enzymes, higher blood sugar, inflamed lung tissue, increased death rates and higher offspring mortality as well.

  

Two dozen farmers reported their pigs and cows fed GM corn became sterile, 71 shepherds said 25% of their sheep fed Bt cotton plants died, and other reports showed the same effects on cows, chickens, water buffaloes and horses. After GM soy was introduced in the UK, allergies from the product skyrocketed by 50%, and in the US in the 1980s, a GM food supplement killed dozens and left five to ten thousand others sick or disabled.

Answer 2

Nature is perfect, we don't need to go around changing the DNA of our crops. If you want to solve the food shortages around the world you have to convince people in first world countries (like the US) to consume less. The more we consume, the less food and other resources are left for the third world.

Answer 3

I've answered a couple of questions about this on here before...here's what's going on.

While it may seem great to have access to larger, more resilient crops, genetically modified food has many drawbacks.  Some can be dangerous of even deadly.

For instance, cows that get injected with rBGH, a genetically altered bovine growth hormone can pass along those hormones via its milk or meat.  This has caused documented cases of young girls starting their period at age 7 or 8.  They drank milk that was produced from cows that were given this hormone and it passed that hormone's effects down to the consumers.  Also, there were several people that died back in the 1990s because they ate corn that had been spliced with a soybean gene.  These people had soy allergies and never knew that their corn had been modified and it cost them their lives.  Finally, these types of crops tend to make insects and weeds that thrive on them and grow around them evolve into more resilient organisms themselves.  This means that after several generations of insects where the only ones that survive and reproduce are the ones that are resistant to the genetic changes of the plant, we get super bugs that we have to use harsher pesticides to get rid of.  Those pesticides then get onto the food and into our systems.  Same with weeds that grow around the plants.  They will work harder to compete for sunlight and nutrients and after several generations, the weeds become stronger and then we have to use harsher and harsher herbicides.  It's a bad cycle and until more research is done, it's something that is going to be argued over.

Answer 4

gm corn and soy cross pollinate with non gm corn or soy and then companies like Monsanto wants big money from farmers that fields have be altered by there gm crops.

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Answer 5

Any kind of natural plant or food that has been tampered with to change it genetically is dangerous for the planet, people and animals. GM food is a global disaster just waiting to happen.