> The single issue is whether it is safe or not If that's all you're concerned with and think articles/opinions discussing other aspects are "cloaking the poin

> The single issue is whether it is safe or not If that's all you're concerned with and think articles/opinions discussing other aspects are "cloaking the point" you should know the scientific consensus on GMOs is that they're safe. There was a Forbes article[1] last year that linked to quite a number of studies. If you're looking for a less journalistic take and want to poke around with the data/studies yourself check out GENERA[2] (a database of peer reviewed GMO studies). FiveThirtyEight did a piece on the gap between "what the public thinks and what scientists know" and saw the widest margin in the subject of GMO safety[3]. "Politicians in the EU are generally not friendly to GMOs" and spent over 200 million Euros on a decade of research[4] and the "main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than e.g. conventional plant breeding technologies."[5] [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/09/17/the-debate-about-gmo-safety-is-over-thanks-to-a-new-trillion-meal-study/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/09/17/the-debate-... [2] http://genera.biofortified.org/ http://genera.biofortified.org/ [3] http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/theres-a-gap-between-what-the-public-thinks-and-what-scientists-know/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/theres-a-gap-between-what... [4] http://www.biofortified.org/2014/02/industry-funded-gmo-studies/ http://www.biofortified.org/2014/02/industry-funded-gmo-stud... [5] http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-funded_gmo_research.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-f... (pdf)