Why are genetically modified crops an issue?
1. GM crops failed to deliver promised benefits 2. GM crops posing escalating problems on the farm 3. Extensive transgenic contamination unavoidable 4. GM crops not safe 5. GM food raises serious safety concerns 6. Dangerous gene products are incorporated into crops 7. Terminator crops spread male sterility 8. Broad-spectrum herbicides highly toxic to humans and other species 9. Genetic engineering creates super-viruses 10. Transgenic DNA in food taken up by bacteria in human gut 11. Transgenic DNA leads to cancer 12. CaMV 35S promoter increases horizontal gene transfer 13. A history of misrepresentation and suppression of scientific evidence GM crops have failed to deliver the promised benefits and are posing escalating problems on the farm. Transgenic contamination is now widely acknowledged to be unavoidable, and hence there can be no co-existence of GM and non-GM agriculture. Most important of all, GM crops have not been proven safe. On the contrary, sufficient evidence has emerged
