I've always been a little skeptical of the hoopla over genetically modified foods. After all, messing with crop genes is supposedly what got us from being hunter/gatherers to farmers in the first place. Norman Borlaug probably saved millions of lives by messing with crop genes. Genetically modified foods just seem like an accelerated, test tube version of the hybridization we've been doing for millennia to improve our food.
However, considering the damage arguably good things like antibiotics and soda have done do my intestines (I said arguably! who doesn't like soda??), I do keep an eye out for indications that there may be a real problem and not just hype. I see headlines like the one on this article that claims GM corn damaged caused organ damage in rats in a study, and I start to wonder if I should avoid the stuff. Then I read the article... They used GM corn that's not currently in any products. I suspect that not all GM foods are alike, so it is a little hard to tell what the implications of this might be. For all I know, they could have made up some kind of crazy mutant corn for the study that no one ever had the foggiest notion of putting into food. I think I'm going to throw this one on the "hype" pile. Maybe someone will do some useful research, like a study using GM foods people might actually eat.
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