What are some potential risks of GMOs?
Critics argue that GMOs can reproduce and interbreed with natural organisms, thereby spreading in uncontrollable and unpredictable ways. It is difficult to maintain a separation between GMO crops and non-GMO crops due to uncontrollable cross-pollination. Although GMO supporters believe biotechnology can overcome these problems with more advanced products, critics of GMOs argue that the long term effects of this contamination are unknown and potentially disastrous for biodiversity, food security and health. Scientists argue that GMO genetic material is very much unlike ordinary genetic materials. The gene-constructs are said to be designed to invade genomes and to overcome the natural species barriers, thus making the cross over of bacterial, herbicide, and pesticide resistance a much more common occurrence than in non-GM foods. The creation of “super-bugs” that could affect humans and crops is said to be a very real threat by some scientists who warn of the heightened potential for thi
