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Summary In his article "No, You Shouldn't Fear GMO Corn" published on Slate.com in 2012, Jon Entine argues that genetically engineered crops modified do not cause harm to health or the environment, and the conclusion reached by Caitlin Shetterly is absurd and unobjectionable. Although every major scientific oversight body in the world has concluded that GMO foods are harmless, the public remains deeply suspicious, fearing that such foods could cause cancer or allergies. Caitlin Shetterly, one of the concerned people, wrote an article in Elle magazine, arguing that genetically modified foods could cause allergic reactions and that consumers face unknown and unacceptable risks from new, yet to be identified allergens, which the food monitoring program Our government, compromised by industry, is not destined to recover. The evidence provided by Shetterly was the disappearance of the symptoms of eosinophilic disorder after she eliminated all corn from her diet, which convinced her of the cause-and-effect relationship between consumption of genetically modified corn and allergic reactions. He tried to prove his points by interviewing a racer...