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GMOs are widely being accepted for their theoretical benefits, not their real-world effect. In this video, 5 reasons that GMOs aren't worth it when you stack up the evidence - even after biased Anti-GMO information is excluded. Failure to Yield: http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/food_and_agriculture/failure-to-yield.pdf German Meta-Study on yield and profits: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0111629&representation=PDF Symbiotic Fungi +37% yields: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389390?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Symbiotic Fungi Greenhouse Yields Study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01490.x/epdf Rodale's Farming System's Trial: http://rodaleinstitute.org/assets/FSTbooklet.pdf GMOs "safe" on animals study: http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Nicolia-20131.pdf List of GMO feeding studies: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n9/fig_tab/nbt.2686_T1.html Abnormalities in Mice Intestines with GMOs Study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10533866 Austrian Government Study - Abnormal Mice Generations: http://www.biosicherheit.de/pdf/aktuell/zentek_studie_2008.pdf Differences in Goat Testicles with GMOs: http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FANM%2FANM4_10%2FS1751731110000728a.pdf&code=e1ce9ece5e3e0bc3e051a6bcc1b17fc3 Lower Blood Cell Count in Sows Study: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0047851 90% of soy GMO, 70% of corn and cotton: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?pagewanted=all RoundUp on Placenta Study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257596/pdf/ehp0113-000716.pdf RoundUp more Toxic than Glyphosate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955666/ 2-4-D Deforms Sperm CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/96-132/ Leopold Center on GMO profits in US: https://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/leopold-letter/1999/fall/does-planting-gmo-seed-boost-farmers-profits Organic +22 to 35% Profitability Meta-Analysis: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/24/7611.abstract USDA Report: GMOs increase herbicide use: http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1282246/err162.pdf