Identifying Questions and Hypotheses

Is GMO safe?

On the Center for Food Safety, it is explained how scientists have conducted an experiment to test whether or not GMO foods are safe for us to eat. Even though some people (such as GMO seed developers), are saying that these GMO foods are safe to eat, there is no scientific evidence for that. The study proves that there is still valid concern about the safety of genetically engineered foods. The question that the scientists asked in this study was "Is GMO safe?" There has been quite a bit of speculation by scientists that GMO foods are not safe to eat. There has been international recognition that acknowledges the risk posed by GMO's. The scientists conducting this study hypothesize that GMO foods do pose some risk, as engineering foods is very different from conventional breeding. There were also previous aspects that led the scientists to form this hypothesis such as concerns regarding the spread of herbicide weeds, negative health impacts, and increasing the use of herbicide.


Center for Food Safety (Source)