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GMOs how can I make it clear.  It is like this: you need to eat food, or you will die.  When you eat food you chew it up and swallow it. It goes into you stomach and powerful acids and enzymes break up the food and send it into your intestines.  There, the food further breaks down into molecule sized chunks and pass through the cell walls into your bloodstream and then they go to your cells.  There are other processes that involve insulin and the liver, but what is important is that the molecules are broken down into useful components, carbohydrates (like sugars), fats, and amino acids.  Carbohydrates are things that the things that made the food used to store energy, generally plants store carbs and animals store fats, but plants also store energy as fats too.  It is just energy and it is generally universally useful, but it is devoid of anything important, besides energy—which is important.  

There are twenty-two amino acids.  Twenty of them are used in DNA.  That is it.  The 22 are used to make every protein in your body and every other protein in every other life form on earth.  DNA, as I said previously is made of amino acids and is thus a protein.  When a protein gets digested it torn into amino acids by enzymes (which are also proteins) and reused by your cells to make more cells and more DNA, or it is used to make proteins that your body needs to function, like insulin and enzymes.  

DNA.  If you breakdown any section of DNA you will have a bunch of amino acids, twenty different kinds of them and they can be configured in many ways to make many strips of DNA.  DNA make proteins that make other proteins that do things in the body, plant bodies and animal bodies alike.  That's it.  That is why GMOs mean nothing to the body.  Nothing at all, because all things that are digested, GMO and nonGMO alike and the body can't tell what the source of the amino acids were, because once it enters that stage of the digestion process identity is gone.  Hell, once it is all chewed up and a slurry in the intestines, you can't tell the source of the proteins.  The only thing that some GMOs have that can survive the digestion process is secondary metabolites, but most things have them so it is not really a big thing.  

What is a secondary metabolite?  It is something that a body produces that has an effect on the body that can have an effect on something that eats them.  Like drug effects.  Eat a plant or mushroom and boom you have a wild or fun time, or boom you are dead.  Mushrooms are famous for these different and similar effects.  But tobacco, marijuana, and opium come from plants and many poisons are derived from plants too.  It is a matter of dose for most things: a little is harmless, more causes an effect, too much causes death.  These thresholds are different for everything and person.  For example, there is corn that has been modified to make BT.  BT is actually a bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis, and when it is digested by insects it binds with various important enzymes and causes the insect to die.  In humans it has no effect, because the enzyme is not present in mammals or birds and reptiles, so no death.  

Fish DNA added to tomatoes to make them more frost resistant is a sequence of DNA that creates a antifreeze that protects the fruit naturally that does not affect the taste and does not make the tomato inedible, because fish have had the same DNA for millions of years and are not inedible either.  

Round up ready crops are plants that are granted immunity to Roundup, a chemical that binds enzymes in plants.  The binding of the enzymes kills the plants, but the Roundup Ready plants have DNA that uses a different enzyme to do the same process and is not bound by the Roundup.  

What GMO plants are allowing us to do is increase food production, by increasing the yield of the crop.  They increase the nutrient content.  They reduce the dependence on chemical fertilizers.  They reduce the toxins added to crops as pesticides.  Roundup affects only plants and looses its effectiveness quickly in the soil.  BT crops only affect the insects that eat the crop, whereas BT spray affects all insects near the plant.

GMO is the future.  It will allow us to grow more food on less land and feed more people than our current foods can with better nutrition and grown on more marginal lands to boot.