To answer you question Jeff again it is a no but to expand on that.
GMO's are scary and the people that own most of them (%90) Monsanto is even scarier. How long will it be before GMO's are banned and found out to be life threatening like so many of their other products. Don't see that happening too soon.
Like Good old PCB's how many people died and are still dying from that mess. Just one of their wonderful major breakthroughs, scientific advancements, betterment of man products that was banned. What are they not telling us, they are famous for hiding pertinent info from us because they know the consequences of us knowing the truth, a loss of profit.
BGH Bovine Growth Hormone another assuredly safe product was uncovered to be very unsafe and even banned in multiple country's. But not the US, why, too much money to be made.
In the late 80 early 90s a [url=https://todayyesterdayandtomorrow.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/gm-tryptophan-ems-killed-37-and-permanently-disabled-1500-people/]GM Tryptophan[/url]
killed 37 people and seriously disabled 1500 or so more in the US. This was not made by Monsanto but is a Genetically Modified food supplement. The company Showa Denko quickly destroyed all bacterial stock and any and all evidence after this came to light. Go figure. Same tactics Monsanto use, people that get in the way are fired and threatened. When scientist unveil fact that is counterproductive to progress (making money) they are let go, even at times discredited from the colleges they attended. This is too hide the truth from the consumer. So many lies and half truths surround GMO. They say it is safe but is it??? Obviously not. Can you really trust these people?
I believe Apple touched on [url=https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS446US446&q=monsanto+farmer+patent+infringement]patent infringement[/url] how many farmers have been sued and at times bankrupted, harassed and threatened due to his neighbors GMO crop spilling over or cross breeding with their open pollinated crops. Or just because of falsely created accusations of a farmer saving seed. Sued for saving seed is this where we want to go with this, is this progress? I for one think not.
Mexico had I want to say 400 - 500 different variety's of wild corn. These are threatened and becoming extinct due to GMO. It may be something as simple as a seed accidentally being dropped along the road. The plant grows and crosses with local variety's ruining them forever. The local corn grows well without fertilizer or pesticide if [url=https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS446US446&q=monsanto+farmer+patent+infringement#hl=en&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS446US446&sclient=psy-ab&q=transgenic%20corn%20in%20mexico&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=f4724e78e1fe5bb4&biw=1280&bih=822&pf=p&pdl=300]Transgenic corn[/url] takes over all could be lost and more farmers bankrupted. A wholesale life change could be brought on by this. They may be
forced to rely on GMO (Monsanto) corn which needs fertilizer and pesticides to grow. Resulting in loss of profit and more importantly a loss in variety. The family farmer may not be able to produce a crop to feed his family.
We all eat this stuff it is everywhere, of course there are no regulations forcing GMO labeling. So we don't know what we are eating. The worst part is not even the GMO manufacturer's know exactly what they are doing when zapping genes to and fro. They know they are getting what they are looking for but do not know what other mutations have occurred which could be quite a few and quite dangerous. Take the average supermarket tomato for example, though not dangerous, they came out with unexpected mutations. The wanted to alter the genes to make a fully ripe tomato without green shoulders, but in the process shut off the flavor gene. You ever wonder why they are solid, bland, lifeless tomatoes, that is why, but hell they sure look pretty don't they.
Argentina and Brazil among others I am sure are being inundated by [url=https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS446US446&q=monsanto+ctraband+seed#hl=en&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS446US446&sa=X&ei=vow_UJOXL4OgqgHUnYCYDA&ved=0CBwQvwUoAA&q=monsanto+contraband+seed&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=f4724e78e1fe5bb4&biw=1280&bih=822]contraband[/url] seed. Brazil had a ban on GM seed but was forced to revoke this ban. This is where GMO seed is going. They are taking over the world. Again with Mexico seed was brought in there unknown and the spread of these are threatening the very existence of thousands of years worth of natural corn growing. It is quite possible these GM corn were brought in on purpose to get a foothold, since a 10+ year ban on GMO had been going on. Monsanto again forcing it's wares upon us. Other countries have been growing GM seed with less production than before. The cotton in India is BT infused but is more susceptible to other disease, now farmers have to pay more for seed only to have crop failure which spiked a huge rise in farmer [url=https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=1&oq=indian+contton+farmer+suicide&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS446US446&q=indian+farmer+suicide+bt+cotton+&gs_upl=0l0l1l4110867lllllllllll0&aqi=g2&pbx=1]suicides[/url].
Add to this all Monsanto is trying to squash out the small farmers that refuse to grow their corn, beans etc. They also use very shady tactics to make scientist who uncover dirty facts seem wrong in their findings or at least incompetent. They even go as far a pitting farmer against farmer encouraging you to snitch on your neighbor if they are doing something against the system with an 800 number to call. Possibly saving seed or in the case of an unintentional cross.
I keep bringing up Monsanto even though the op's topic was GMO. Again Monsanto owns 90% + of all GMO seed patents. Really are patents needed for food. The GMO seed is producing massive monoculture crops and even further killing diversity. Not to mention the small farmer. Even causing more sickness and death due to chemicals needed to grow GMO crops both fertilizer and pesticides. This is a big deal in smaller third world countries. Does this make sense, I thought this was supposed to a better alternative. To solve food shortages in the world. Funny it is doing the opposite in certain sectors of the world. You may say how is GMO making monoculture worse. Monsanto is forcing seed on farmers asking if not demanding they expand, this way they can sell more of there high priced seed, oh wait you are going to need some chemicals for that. Just so happens we make those too. How convenient for them. This forcing of seed, their variety is wiping out other variety's by expansion and even unintentional crosses. Not too mention farmer Bob here with his roundup ready corn spraying death all over his field, Guess what happens when he passes by farmer Don's non GMO field. Herbicide drift and crop failure. You are almost forced to join along or get run over.
They, the GMO kings, are trying to wrangle in several other foods as well, mustard, beets, radishes etc. The will control the worlds food if this is allowed to continue. If you control the food you control the world, as simple as that. One company with that much power, they aim to be the new GOD!
This terrifies me of where this world is going. Downhill fast I can see that. I fear for my kids future and even more so their kids future, its exponential.