After the cultivation of more than a billion hectares of GM crops worldwide – and the consumption in North America alone of more than two trillion servings of foods that contain GM ingredients – not a single case of injury to a person or disruption of an ecosystem has been documented.
Entretanto, nos benefícios das culturas GM estão incluídos rendimentos mais elevados, um menor recurso a pesticidas químicos e a produção de biocombustíveis.