Unpredictable effects. Unknown outcomes. Potential health consequences. Uncertain gene technology.
These aren’t phrases biotech giants like to hear.
They prefer:
“One gene produces one protein.”
“Each gene has a specific function.”
This is the basis for the modern biotech industry, and it applies most definitely to GMO crops.
And it is false.
So for example, when Monsanto says the genes they
insert in plants only serve to protect the plants from the herbicide
Roundup and have no other function, they’re making it up.
In other words, each gene inserted in GMO food crops cannot be said to
have only one function. There is reason to believe the inserted genes
interact with genes already in the plants, and produce unknown effects.
Biotech companies like Monsanto are, to be sure, aware of this gaping
hole in their “science” of gene-function. In fact, according to
Heinemann, “Many biotech companies already conduct detailed genetic
studies of their products that profile the expression of proteins and
other elements. But they are not required to report most of this data to
regulators, so they do not. Thus vast stores of important research
information sit idle.”
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