Since I'm no expect on this subject and didn't claim to be I was just wondering, GMO's? Are there any independant studies that show they are bad for ya?
The problem isn't that they are proved to be harmful for certain... more so, it is that they started showing up before there were any independent studies showing they weren't harmful for humans. Long term effect studies take so many years to do, especially unbiased, double blind, independent studies. Most of the early studies done, that showed them as relatively "harmless" were funded by companies linked to those who would benefit most from GMOs ending up in our food. And even then, there was a severe lack of regulation, at least in certain parts of the world, as the FDA decided before pretty much any risk assessment studies had been done, to treat them basically like a natural food.
However, there are several independent studies that do show they are quite likely harmful to some extent.
https://www.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf ~ on toxins in fetal and maternal blood from pesticides used with GMOs.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx1001749 ~ Monsanto's glysophate linked to Breast cancer
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416 ~ Monsanto's glysophate linked to Alzheimer's, Autism, Parkinson's
Again, the bigger issue is that GMOs should never have ended up in our food in the first place until strict testing had been done, independently of the financial backing of companies with financial gain at stake. The FDA idiotically decided to treat GMOs almost identically to regular food, and therefore regulations on studies showing safety for human consumption and no harmful effects were basically considered not necessary. There was far too much money involved and at stake imo.
http://static.aboca.com/www.aboca.c..._genetically_modified_crops_for_nutrition.pdf
A study on the actual risk assessment that was done with GMOs before they were allowed into our food, and on the current level of studies in that regard. Severely lacking. It's somewhat mind-boggling that we treat something like this as safe a priori, instead of a posteriori.