Genes from bacteria and viruses have been spliced into some crops to produce the chemical markers or related capabilities to ward-off or be resistant-to certain pests. So you're not ingesting those bacteria or virus. But it's certainly possible to have allergic reactions to it.

The modifying of crops to be more resistant to pesticides, that's very true, though. It's frightening the levels of Round-up that Monsanto has made their stuff resistant to, not to mention getting international aid groups to use their stuff under license in third world countries… with patents in-tact. What that means is the farmers aren't allowed to re-use the seed from their crops to grow next season's. Thus we're in a perpetual welfare world where the corrupt companies like Monsanto keep making bank off their patented products that they've bribed public officials here into exclusively using for foreign food aid programs that wouldn't be necessary if we just gave them unpatented seed in the first place.

Not too dissimilar to HIV treatment programs, where poor countries would like to just make generics for people who otherwise can't afford them but American and British pharma use our international legal clout to prevent that. Instead, taxpayers here (again) end up having to buy the drugs for poor third worlders. It's just one big ever-expanding racket. Is it really any surprise, though? You didn't think all these rich f—s flying around in their own private jets and high-priced whores were getting their money fairly, did you?

On another soy note, soy beans are not particularly healthy to begin with. Even non-GMO beans are loaded with toxic stuff. And even if you ignore that, they'll cause gas as much as any bean, but I digress. They must be heavily processed through ion-exchange to produce, for instance, protein isolates that are truly safe to eat and comparable to other food stuffs. Yet soy protein that has not been processed in that way is in practically ALL processed food. No companies are processing them properly even though it is understood how to do it. About the only soy anyone should be eating are certain types of aged & fermented traditional soy foods, and then in moderation.

There are just a couple big chemicals/foods companies on the planet who control most of the soy. The "Soy is Healthy" meme is largely a myth and marketing hype. The research often cited THEY funded. It's bogus. I know it comes as a shock, paricularly to hippies and vegans, but you've been had!