Even worse is how this shameful giveaway became law. It was inserted anonymously, and without review into the must-pass budget bill to avoid government shutdown in March.
Wow, now I know why I never heard of the act until that worldwide protest against GMOs. It's upsetting that lawmakers are allowed to sneak things in like that when they know it probably wouldn't otherwise be passed. So yeah, I signed the petition.
DNA and RNA make the proteins that do stuff in our bodies. When radiation is shot at DNA it damages parts of it. Suddenly you may have proteins being produced that have never been in nature before, which may cause allergens or other problems (anyone remember the deaths from StarLink corn a few years back?).
The amount of some proteins may be turned off, on, or epigenetically change how much is made. Inserting genes from other species means that food manufacturers can use GMOs that insert genes that manufacture bT toxins right in your gut. When the alkaline bile hits it in your small intestine, it activates the stuff (just like in insects where it is activated in their stomach which pretty much explodes, killing the "pest").
RNA is even nastier because RNA is the "antenna" that receives signals from nearby cells (Kirlian photography of a torn leaf shows energy in the missing areas where the leaf had been--freaky cool) and can then, theoretically, be activated by an electrical wave. (Just like a cell phone's EMFs impact your cells' functioning.)
Ancient bacteria in our guts do not have the same walls around the cell nuclei, so DNA that we eat does get taken up and allowed to proliferate. We are what we eat.
Personally, I'd like to not eat stuff that can use a pulsed wave of energy to activate poison factories that have been put into me via food. Just saying we have a lot to learn and a lot of caution is needed.
Besides, GMOs ruin farmland. The soil ecology is so terribly disturbed that nutrients are not breaking down from any composted crop waste, resulting in nutrient-deficient plants from deficient soils. More fertilizers are needed just to keep the plants alive and phosphorus is now found primarily in one African country and, if I remember correctly, Turkey. It's not as widely available as our current farming system would need in the long term.
Edit: the chemicals, like RoundUp (glyphosate) are also now widely found in groundwater. While the glyphosate is widely advertised to break down quickly, those ads do not mention what the byproducts are, how they continue to accumulate in the environment or break down, and how toxic the whole shebang is to our kids. There are an amazing number of lawsuits in South America now from mothers of kids who were congenitally damaged when the mothers were in the path of windblown pesticides.
What a legacy for the next generation.