Are all GMO plants bad?

The problem is that No long term studies have been done on how Genetically Altered food will affect us.
Our Metabolism slows down to process unknown substances. This promotes a Metabolic Disturbance which can lead to Type Two Diabetics. If it happens often.
Studies have been done on simple sugars like high fructose corn syrup and they promote Diabetics.
I do not wish to be Monsanto’s Lab Rat.
I eat only Whole Foods. Nothing which contains unnatural substances.
You can find more on droz.com and Dr Mark Hyman’s site.

Plants genetically modify themselves all the time, so no, there is nothing wrong with it. Even people get genetically modified randomly. Is it bad because scientists do it instead of nature? No.

To conintue @YARNLADY‘s argument, selective breeding and hybridization is a form of genetic modification. Humans have been doing that longer than recorded history—the modern corn / maize plant, for instance, started as an insignificant-looking grass (teosinte) that you would scarcely recognize in its original, wild form.

So GMO’s are not necessarily “bad.” It’s just that transgenic engineering—like all modern technology—can have unintended consequences. I like to think that time and market forces will keep things moving in a positive direction. The “Frankenfood” scenario of technology run amok—mass poisonings, total destruction of the food supply, etc.—is an unrealistic picture painted by scientifically ignorant cynics.

The idea of the GMO crops is appealing – tougher staple grains to feed the millions in places where there’s little water, for instance. Making them non-reproducing, not so much.

There are two issues with GMOs – 1) unknown long-term impacts for human health and the environment, and 2) legal ramifications of being able to own life. The technology itself is not the problem. A lot of plants do not seed true to type, meaning if you have a plant that produces something delicious and you plant a seed from that plant the seed produces a plant that may not produce the same delicious product you expect. In this case, plants are propagated asexually by grafting etc to essentially produce clones. When you do this for a hundred years, the genetics of the plant your are propagating stay the same while things that can exploit it (e.g. diseases and pests) evolve new and better methods of doing so. If it comes down to a world with GM papaya, e.g., or a world without papaya at all, I want the former! The link you posted is dead, but researchers in the Phillipines recently developed a ring spot resistant papaya variety that is not GM. The thing is, with time and labor costs of doing it this way GM is much more economical. Bottom line – GM is just a tool. How some companies use it is the problem. We need more research to understand its consequences, and these companies are engaged in such research and not sharing it with anyone as well as helping to prevent independent people from studying this. GM you refer to and natural genetic changes are not the same thing, however, as others above seem to think – we are inserting genes across Kingdoms which does not happen naturally, for example.