The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
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About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.
The fact is that more and more people are developing a sensitivity to gluten, without necessarily being allergic to it.
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.
I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.
For consumers, the lesson is simple: Genetically modified foods are safe to eat.
In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.