It is completely normal for anyone to be nervous about anything they don’t completely understand, the problem is that sometime people use their fear to spread false statements around and try to pass them off as facts.

Genetics is a topic that is still fairly new and we as a world are still discovering new parts of this topic. There are many people who are afraid of G.M.Os but are afraid of them for the wrong reasons.  For one many people are afraid of G.M.Os because they supposedly cause cancer in rats. The study that came out with these results is frowned upon by many scientists because the rats used in the study are known for growing tumors on their own. Also the sample size i.e. the number of rats used was not a big enough number to come to the conclusion that rats get cancer from G.M.Os. What many people are not seeing or perhaps don’t want to see is that G.M.Os could help many people. By using G.M.Os crops can be modified so they are immune to certain virus and to drought which could wipe out a years harvest. By using G.M.Os people can worry a little less about having a food shortage. Also people have been cross breeding plants since way before people knew anything about genetics. G.M.O plants are not that different than two plants that were crossed. The only real difference is instead of cross breeding the plants a scientist just takes the genes they want and put them into a knew plant which is exactly what happens in cross breeding minus the scientist and can take a lot longer.

Although there are some things we do not know about G.M.Os and yes they could be potentially dangerous scientist run many tests to make sure that food is safe to eat. I think if people decided to learn about G.M.Os and the actual facts and didn’t hide behind they’re fear of change people would realize G.M.Os aren’t that bad.