The Fitness Thread

[Reach]

Reach: the very popular, now out-of-date genetic roulette is a starting point that I figure you'd have already encountered if you've read anything about this. Not too hard to find a bazillion for and against using that as a starting point. I don't have specific links, as when I was reading about it I didn't make a folder and bookmark them.

It's not a scientific source, and I ask for links because I took a lot of biochemistry in university and basically two classes in GMOs, one that was only on GMOs and I've had to dig through a lot of research on the subject.

And there is very little research that points to generalized, harmful effects of GMOs.

Quite the opposite. If anything, there is a long history of GMOs that were found to be incredibly safe and if anything superior to their on shelf counterparts (e.g. a more famous example, purple tomatoes, infused with antioxidants and engineered to last longer, but were taken off the shelfs in most places. There appears as if there might be a resurgence, but hey) that were either removed or didn't sell for various reasons.

And then you have absurd cases like the GM rice that was infused with vitamins, denied to many countries that needed it despite no evidence of it being unsafe.


http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/do...eeredfoods.pdf

http://goldenrice.org/PDFs/Opportuni...IBTEC_2009.pdf