Why was StarLink GM Corn seed banned for human consumption? ?
It was not approved (distinct from banned) for sale for the purpose of human consumption. Now at the same time all naturally occurring varieties of peanut are permitted to be sold for human consumption despite the fact that we know, conclusively that some people will die from eating peanuts. When introducing anything new into our food supply we take precautions that have never been required with plants that have been around a long time, even plants known to be dangerous. Over centuries plant variants and even species have come into existence as a result of random gene splicing, recombinant DNA in the wild. Some of those have been toxic, like deadly nightshade while closely related plants like tomato and potato are naturally occurring genetic modifications on the same theme. The distinction when people tinker with genes is that we may produce a food that resembles a well known species but is different enough to kill or harm us. In a natural environment we might have learned to distingui
