text: what are some benefits and risks of genetically modified food ? like gm (genetically modified) food,  what are some benefits and risks of growing and eating genetically modified food ?! i think the previous respondent explained this subject pretty well. i can't really think of any benefits for the consumers in regards to gm food. they have no been sufficiently tested on humans. all the corporations do is briefly test them, and the fda rubberstamps the new products, acting as though they are exactly the same as a normal produce. of course for corporations the benefits are quite clear; they may gain patent on certain varieties of seeds. this means corporations can control large portions of the food supply, in effect wiping out small farmers and peasants. the development of terminator seeds, insures that farmers must buy new seed from companies such as monsanto, each year, rather than using their own. this causes poor farmers to become even furthered indebted, and thus many are forced from farming all together.