Are GM foods good?
Typically GM foods are larger, which means feeding more people without the same amount of farmland. It could also be that plants could be engineered to have more of the good vitamins/nutrients and less of the bad stuff. Plants can be made that are resistant to disease or pests, improving crop yield. We’ve been genetically modifying our food for thousands of years through artificial selection. It’s a much longer process than what we call GM food today, but the results have been pretty drastic (many of the fruits/veggies we eat today are unpalatable in their wild forms). It’s probably wise to be wary of foods with weird hormones, and other completely unnatural stuff in it, but I wouldn’t completely dismiss the benefits of all GM foods without knowing exactly what the purpose was, and what the modifications were.
