Are GMOs Destroying Childrens Health?

Children consume more milk than adults, and in the U.S. many dairy cows are given the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH) and fed diets of GMO grains (corn and soy).Shutterstock*

For the past couple of years, an excerpt from advocate and activist Jeffrey M. Smith’s book about the dangers genetically modified (GMO) foods pose to children has circulated virally on the internet. Taken from the book titled, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, the excerpt discusses how children are more vulnerable to the effects of GMOs. There are three main dangers of GMOs mentioned in the article:

1. Nutritional changes impact children more because their bodies convert more of the food they eat “to build organs and tissues,” but adults convert more food “to energy and store this as fat.” Smith mentions the UK Royal Society which said that genetic modification “could lead to unpredicted harmful changes in the nutritional state of foods.”