loqi comments on Should I be afraid of GMOs? - Less Wrong Discussion
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The assumption that we can better determine toxicity with our current understanding of human biology than thousands of years of natural selection seems questionable, but peanuts are certainly a good lower bound on selection's ability.
I also don't have much confidence that the parties responsible for safety testing are particularly reliable, but that's a loose belief.
Natural selection wasn't attempting to make it harmless to humans. Especially in plants that didn't evolve nearby humans.