The concept of genetically modified (GM) food might bring up an image of evil scientists in a lab concocting ways to poison our food for company profit. Some GMs might have that aim, but much research has been invested trying to create crops that will bring more nutrition and food to people who need it.
The simple fact is that GM food has not proven to be dangerous. In reality, food has been artificially modified and domesticated for centuries.
Humans have been altering nature since they started settling down and developing agriculture. A simple trick would be to search ‘undomesticated bananas’ on the internet. The resulting images would be that of a short, fat, green thing with seeds in it, far from what we have grown accustomed to. Similarly the tiny fluffy Chihuahua is the descendant of wild dire wolves after thousands of years of domestication.
How do laboratories and scientists come into this?
Humans have been altering nature since they started developing agriculture
The difference in this case is that the genetic modifications taking place are intentional and more precise. This contrasts with generations of inbreeding, and trial and error.
Because of this, scientists have been able to yield more produce with every season; they have also eliminated numerous diseases that may cause potential harm to produce, and achieved other great advances.
Long story short, GMOs have given us 90 per cent of soy, cotton, and corn products, made sugar-free drinks possible, and helped Nobel-Laureate Norman Borlaug save a billion lives by feeding Third World countries.
Surely these are good enough reasons to conclude that GMOs are beneficial.