About half of U.S. public says GM foods are worse for one's health
The American public is closely divided over the degree of health risk posed by additives present in the foods we regularly eat. Majorities see at least some risk from eating food produced with common agricultural and processing practices, including meat from animals given hormones or antibiotics, produce grown with pesticides and foods with artificial ingredients. And about half of the public says that foods with genetically modified (GM) ingredients are worse for one’s health than foods without, according to a new nationally representative survey from Pew Research Center.
Seven-in-ten Americans (70%) believe that science has had a mostly positive effect on the quality of food in the United States. But when asked about one area where new developments in biotechnology are changing the possibilities for how we grow and consume foods, the public is closely divided. Roughly half of Americans (49%) believe that foods with GM ingredients are worse for one’s health than non-GM foods, while 44% say such foods are neither better nor worse and 5% say they are better for one’s health.
About half of U.S. public says GM foods  | are worse for sone's health  | % of U.S. adults health who say genetically modified foods are  | modified for sone's ingredients health than foods with no genetically  | modified ingredients  | Neither better  | 44%  | 49%  | Worse  | nor worse  | No answer 1%  | Better 5%  | Note: Beliefs about the health effects of genetically modified (GM)  | foods include those who lean toward each response.  | Source: Survey conducted April 23-May 6, 2018  | "Public Perspectives on Food Risks"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 