All the independent studies that we've had so far, such as those conducted by Arpad Pusztai, Gilles-Éric Séralini and the Institute of Science in Society, have shown that transgenics have consequences. I want to point out that there is a huge difference between transgenes and working in genomics. The immune system of rodents was affected in every transgenics experiment. I am pretty sure that, if we were talking about a drug, it would not even get past the first stage of approval for human consumption. Even so, we are eating these products.
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