It should be banned (at least for now). I've looked up some information about GMO's and the following concerns me:

"Advocacy groups such as Greenpeace, The Non-GMO Project and Organic Consumers Association say that risks of GM food have not been adequately identified and managed". parties like Greenpeace wouldn't state something like that without any knowledge about the matter. Apparently the current promotion of GM products is dangerously misleading, where the actual benefits to the consumer are minimal. First do extensive research on gmo's in food products (monitored research), before I would feel comfortable with it.

I am actually on the fence. I believe that food should be produced naturally, without genetically modifying it, but at the same time, humanity has introduced many new substances in the air and earth that affect our food and us as well. If GMO aim at addressing these issues, then I am all in. I can see the benefits in using it.

Unfortunately, my perception is that they are mostly used for price benefits and the technology is still unable to make them perfectly safe for us.

This is why I am leaning more towards forbidding them.

Why give so much control over our food supply to any one company? I wouldn't ;)

Natural reproduction is bad for short-term profits. The way to grow a consistent product at yields that achieve economies of scale is to stamp out the risks of diversity and imperfection that happens when genes reshuffle. To boost profit, you need to grow a specific crop and exclude less valuable species.

This is what’s called a “monoculture” or “monocrop,” the cultivation of a single plant species, usually on a massive, standardized scale. These things come at a cost, though. Just as their genetic similarity makes for cheap, large-scale production, it also prevents monocrops from adapting to attack from pests or disease. (Other disastrous consequences of monocrops include that farmers soak their crops in ever-increasing amounts of harmful chemicals and that this scale of growing is incredibly taxing on the environment.)

No episode in history illustrates this cost more nightmarishly than the Irish potato blight, “the biggest experiment in monoculture ever attempted and surely the most convincing proof of its folly,” as journalist Michael Pollan called it in his book Botany of Desire.

Holly crap..., a REAL argument ;)

I do not want to be a try out bunny. I do not have any problems with gmo's themselves, but more with the point that there is so much that is not known about it scares me. They should continue testing and when they are sure that there will be no harm for people, animals or the environment they can continue distributing it to the world.

By its own admission Monsanto views its patented GM seeds similarly to the way the software industry views its proprietary technology. Like somebody buying a copy of Photoshop, Monsanto binds its customers to a terms-of-service agreement when they buy their “technology.” (It includes stipulations such as the inability to save and replant the seed.) In the past, if the company has learned those terms have been violated, they have sued, or threatened to sue, farmers. Monsanto even has a hotline that people can call to alert them to patent infringements.

Although this makes sense from a business perspective, it’s problematic from a public relations perspective. The “technology” they’re selling is seeds, which have rich cultural and even spiritual associations that Photoshop does not. Seeds have historically been a part of the natural world that belongs to everybody and nobody, like dirt or the ocean. The customers at liability risk aren’t corporate IT departments, but rather, farmers. (“The Daily Show” pilloried this in a bit last year entitled: “Aasif Mandvi learns that greedy farmers have threatened the livelihood of Monsanto’s heroic patent attorneys.” ;)

Due to it being Genetically modified and in Natural, the Hominidae wouldn't be able to adapt to the organism. A disease can easily occur, and Mutation can easily Pop Up. The body isn't adapted to a Gmo.

I think one could argue that if it was labeled and it said on the label in CLEARLY UNDERSTANDABLE text HOW it was genetically modified, you would have an argument.

However, I don't agree with that argument because companies like Monsanto or Aquabound will ALWAYS find loopholes in the label. Unless there are specified ways of genetic modification, that can be verified as okay. Not only that, but verified that THAT's how the company modified it every time, I would maybe consider a mind change, except for one thing.

Once again, even if one type of way is allowed, that leaves room for them to loophole it and call a way that SHOULD be illegal, whatever the legal way is.

It should be banned. We are still not aware of all the side effects of GMO, until this is not completely researched, we should not easily allow it to be part of our lives.

Even at first sight this may be beneficial in order to avoid food scarcity and so on, I think GMOs are harmful for our bodies. The human body changed in time. Hundreds of years ago GMOs were not discovered yet, so people ate healthier and thus their figures remained uite slim (think about how obesity increased with years). Nowadays our bodies receive a lot of GMOs daily and I believe that in the future our bodies will 'grow' as well.

We may not be fully aware of how much 'damage' GMOs do to our bodies, as we are still consuming them without really thinking much about it. Yet I believe more awareness should be raised about this and slowly switch back to the natural, ecological products (even if they more expensive).

There is a reason why Monsanto has been banned from many countries around the world....& For those who think the FDA has your health in mind...wouldn't pass on or approve a bad product to its citizens for consumption then keep on eating GMO's and letting the FDA decide what you eat, it's a way for hem to "thin out the heard" some people just don't have a clue about how unhealthy and unsuitable GMO "food" is. Eating pesticides that is now part of mycorn,potato, green bean ect...ect...is unacceptable to me....If you want to educate yourself n GMO's and what it's really about, start off with the documentary "Food Inc" and it will open your eyes and lead you down a path that you'd never imagined. All it takes is an open mind.