(I'm from Europe; here it's known as GMO (Genetically Modified Organism). I may call it GM / GMO interchangeably).
I'm pretty sure I have been eating mostly GM foods, probably for the past 20 years of my life.
I'm pretty sure you haven't. Luckily, there aren't that many GM foods being grown yet, and used for human consumption.
With plenty of preservatives, added sugar, caffeine, sodium and every other nasty chemical ever put in food. Never had any diet-related health problems. Healthy blood sugar, healthy immune system, body mass actually slightly under normal but not unhealthily so.
Almost like me, then. Until I became 32, I was fine too. Then I started feeling weird from drinking Coke, so I stopped drinking soda drinks entirely.
Since then, things have started tasting weird or made me uncomfortable, one at a time, so I've stopped drinking or eating them.
Butter, most dairy products, white bread, pork, tea (once I had had green tea, I couldn't drink ordinary tea anymore, it just tasted 'dead').
Also, I believe I have seen that movie. I am aware of the almost comically evil nature of Monsanto. They're third in line on my list of people to line against the wall when the revolution happens (after the professional lobbyists and the MAFIAA).
Good.
However, "evil corporation" does not imply "unsafe food".
No, but it damn well doesn't imply "safe food" either. The "evil corporation" doesn't care, one way or the other, as long as they can turn a profit, which is why such 'food' should be checked rigorously, for decades, under controlled conditions, before entering field testing, if ever. Once a GMO plant is out, the genome will spread in nature, there's no taking it back. Also, the modified genome can transfer to your gut bacteria, which is very bad.
Anyway, Monsanto's plan is to get their hands into each and every big and small farmer's pockets: http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm
They don't give a damn if they destroy the worlds food supply in the process, as long as they can retire with billions in their bank accounts.
Wrt. FDA, I consider them to be thoroughly corrupt, but we can discuss that elsewhere.
Point me at one instance of someone dying from GM food (specifically because the food was GM, mind you, not because it was spoiled or something) and I can point you at ten people who died from normal food, and a thousand more who died from the lack of any food.
Very good point. How would I or anyone else know, if someone who died from cancer or some infection due to a damaged immune system, got that way because he/she ate GM food?
Human trials with GM food are practically non-existent, because they would reveal all too clearly in what ways one's health would deteriorate once you start eating GM food in quantity on a daily basis.
Rats are good substitutes for human subjects, though.
You might also want to read a position paper from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.
PS: Was marking me a foe really necessary?
No. The point I wanted to put across, was that you'll very easily make enemies when discussing GMO, because there's so much at stake; the world's food supply. If it gets irreversibly contaminated with harmful/deadly genes, we're all dead. Game over.
Anyway, I've read hundreds, if not thousands of pages about GM(O), and I made up my mind a couple of years ago; at the very least, it's harmful, and should be abolished.