Like any technology, GMOs are not inherently safe or unsafe. Saying GMOs are safe is like saying cars are safe, electricity is safe. It would be possible to manufacture a GMO bacteria that would kill people.
Ownership of patents on GMOs creates huge financial pressures on companies to sell their products. Pressure that taints the scientific testing of safety, pressure that makes the corporations lobby governments to declare the products safe with less or without testing, pressure that means that those companies are competing with traditional farming to the detriment of traditional farming.
To recap: there is nothing inherently safe or unsafe about GMOs but there is in the corporate ownership of reproduction rights of living things.
Like any technology, GMOs are not inherently safe or unsafe. Saying GMOs are safe is like saying cars are safe, electricity is safe. It would be possible to manufacture a GMO bacteria that would kill people.
Ownership of patents on GMOs creates huge financial pressures on companies to sell their products. Pressure that taints the scientific testing of safety, pressure that makes the corporations lobby governments to declare the products safe with less or without testing, pressure that means that those companies are competing with traditional farming to the detriment of traditional farming.
To recap: there is nothing inherently safe or unsafe about GMOs but there is in the corporate ownership of reproduction rights of living things.