GMO foods: Like anything else, some are good and some are bad.
However, if the seed won't naturally reproduce, then they aren't healthy, as far as I'm concerned.
"... you cannot expect animals to be at their best if they are not well treated and well fed."
I'd agree with that statement.
HOWEVER, something IS killing the bees and other insects.
There's a lot of money to be made by controlling the food supply, and germination/ fertilization of the seed is one way to do it.
It's also a way to control the population.
"For corn, pigs would probably be a good test animal. "
A slightly different direction of the conversation, but swine aren not a good test animal for humans.
I cut meat for a living for about 4 years for a living, before my military years,
and I can tell you from cleaning the coolers where the meat was stored,
and from cutting the animals apart, that pork is one of the least self-cleaning animals of all meats.
Poultry coolers and fish coolers had to be cleaned almost every day,
and beef coolers had to be cleaned about every 3 to 5 days;
but the pork coolers could go almost 2 weeks before they needed cleaning.
Pork meat and fat just didn't 'drain' the impurities out of itself as well as other meats.
If you want to be healthy and live right, and treat the land and animals right,
the way to do it ... is written in the Old Testament.
It's just that simple.However, if the seed won't naturally reproduce, then they aren't healthy, as far as I'm concerned. They will reproduce, they just will not have the same characteristics as their parent plant.
Take the seed from a Hass Avocado and plant it. You will get an avocado tree but not a Hass Avocado. All Hass Avocado are grafted. The original grafts came from a sport tree that has never reproduced naturally.
Plants are funny things.