Inspired by my daughter who added a few pieces together and said "I made a genetically modified human being".
I told her, eating genetically modified foods, will turn a human into a genetically modified one. This is because the foods that we eat are finally taken up by our body cells.
Thus, the question above.
What you're saying is actually wildly incorrect. Yes, the foods that we eat are taken up by our body. But no, the genetic information is not taken up into our genome, so genetically modified food will not change our own genetic makeup. If that were the case, you'd turn into a chicken when you eat a lot of chicken, which is obviously not true.
Sorry, I beg to differ. Yes, we do become slightly modified by the foods we eat. This is because, the food is broken down into fragments and we (humans) have our own enzyme machinery to synthesize proteins. These proteins are also derived from the food we eat
The basic of all proteins in our body is the four/five purine and pyrimidines taken up from the foods we eat. Thus, eating genetically modified food regularly (highlight: regularly) will definitely turn us into slightly modified humans.
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