News & Views: Genetically Modified Food

Today while reading I came across this link -- http://is.gd/F4fJIl

Summary: This editorial opinion says how majority of the scientist says its safe to eat Genetically Modified Foods (GMF), and hence extrapolate that 'We don’t need labels on genetically modified foods'

Opinion: I think there are two points here that needs to be underlined.

1. People need to know what they are reading if they are interested. The right to know/transparency is an important part of the democracy.

2. This is not even 50 years old. To understand the full effects of it you need at-least three generations of a family, the first gen that had started eating GMF, second that was born to them and grew up eating GMF, and the third which had parents who grew up eating GMF and now they are too. Only when this third generation matured to old age can we be sure about its side-affects. Until then we are dealing with theories and probabilities.