You can't make blanket statements about something as general as GMO, but you can make them about human nature and greed. I don't think GMO is fundamentally dif

You can't make blanket statements about something as general as GMO, but you can make them about human nature and greed. I don't think GMO is fundamentally different from processed foods. Processed foods can, in theory, be beneficial for us. But in practice they add all sorts of crap to make it taste better and reduce costs. It's an arms race between food companies trying to find new, cheaper substitutes that haven't been proven harmful yet and others who are concerned about health effects of processed foods. If someone is messing with my food, I'd love to believe he's doing it for my benefit, but somehow greedy bastards are much more motivated and organized than altruists. Greedy bastards start companies and corporations, and it certainly helps to be one to rise to a CEO position. Food, like many products, is optimized to reduce production costs. I don't have good sources at hand, but I keep reading that processed foods are linked to X or Y disease or Z deficiency, or some civilizational disease like allergy or cancer. Norwegians start admirable initiatives by donating large sums of money to other countries for humanitarian efforts and preservation of natural environment... yet their fish farms are just awful. Industrial scale fish farming is awful, even though fish are very healthy to eat in theory. There's nothing inherently harfmul about panga fish, but the way they're farmed in China would make you throw up. Finally, I have an issue with GMO because we know so little about genetics and even plain old food and it often takes decades to find out some kind of food or ingredient is harmful. Look how long it took with sugar. Modifying one gene can affect others, unforeseen aspects of an organism. We don't have unit tests for DNA yet !! My conclusion: GMO is one more way to obfuscate my food.