It does not matter that no adverse health effects have been recorded from eating them [GMOs].

It's amusing to me that anyone would use this as a justification to prove that GMOs are safe when there's no way of tracking (due to lack of the infamous labelling) of whether any illnesses are actually related to GMOs. It's laughable really.

And changing them will require a concerted and long-term effort to develop GM foods that clearly provide convincing benefits to consumers—something that seed companies have conspicuously failed to do over the past decade.

What an interesting admission.

Then of course, any study that shows GMOs dangers is "flawed", has "flimsy evidence", with "downright mistruths". While every "well researched" study is pro-GMOs.

But in terms of risk, how a food crop is created is totally irrelevant...

Pardon me?! Says who?

Anyway, we'll have to agree to disagree. Bio-technology as an industry is in its infancy. If we don't put the breaks on it now, I see a future in 20-30 years where most of our food crops are patented GM. Not because they are particularly magical crops, but because corporations managed to monopolise the food industry. By then it'll be too late to care about bio-diversity, and it'll be impossible to grow even your non-GM food as GM genes will have cross-bred with most native varieties. Even animals will be GM created in the image of the arrogant human that refuses to work with nature under the naive egotistical impression of its own superiority. Nature, as created by evolution will be a thing of the past. And humans will be at the mercy of greed.

All I have to say is this.

If you do so much believe that GMOs are here to bring us all of what their creators promise. If you think they will save us and that we need them to feed us, then go ahead, fight that fight. I go even further and suggest that you put your mouth where your morals lie and eat all the GMOs you can. Show true support for them. Prove to others how safe and wonderful they are. And if you believe in freedom of choice and democracy then let those who don't want to, have a choice.

As for me, I'll keep my trust on nature for as long as I have a choice.

As an aside here are a few blasts from the past of things that were deemed safe at the time and which took decades of fighting against industry to prove otherwise.

DDT is good for me.

More doctors smoke Camels.

Hopefully GMOs won't be joining this list.

Good luck.