The real reason that genetically modified foods are dangerous

There is widespread misunderstanding as to why GM foods are dangerous.

In genetic engineering, genes are transferred from one species to another. However, any dangers arising from that could very likely be tested for and avoided. There is a much more serious problem.

The much more serious problem arises from the methods that are used to perform the transfer. Those methods do not act cleanly. In addition to inserting the new genes, the transfer process causes massive damage to other genes. The damage is random and unpredictable.

It is as though one edited a new paragraph into a computer document, but using a faulty word processor that introduced multiple errors throughout the rest of the document.

This is not the same sort of random change that occurs in nature or in conventional plant breeding, where existing genes are shuffled. It is damage to the genes themselves, creating new genes that never existed before. That is very dangerous.

Since the damage is random and unpredictable, it alters the proteins that the plant or animal produces in random and unpredictable ways. The new proteins can be harmful, even fatal, to those who eat the food, or even breathe the pollen.

It is like repairing a car by spraying it with machine gun bullets. It could be that a bullet dislodges something that was causing a problem and so the car is improved. But also, the bodywork becomes riddled with bullet holes, and all sorts of damage to vital parts such as the brakes could be done.

Questions

What evidence is there that GM foods are actually harmful?

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