If you are willing to go outside the norm of corporate sponsored universities, you can read differing opinions on the topic.
Eating This Could Turn Your Gut Into a Living Pesticide Factory
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bt-corn_b_2442072
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There can be little doubt that genetically-engineered crops are the most dangerous aspect of modern agriculture. Not only are we seeing rapid emergence of super-weeds resistant to glyphosate, courtesy of Roundup Ready crops, we now also have evidence of emerging Bt-resistant insects. Add to that the emergence of a brand new organism capable of producing disease and infertility in both plants and animals and a wide variety of evidence showing harm to human health, and the only reasonable expectation one can glean is that humanity as a whole is being seriously threatened by this foolhardy technology..................
Bt Corn: A Most Dangerous Failure
Monsanto's genetically-modified "Bt corn" has been equipped with a gene from soil bacteria called Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), which produces the Bt toxin. It's a pesticide that breaks open the stomach of certain insects and kills them. This pesticide-producing corn entered the food supply in the late 1990s, and over the past decade, the horror stories have started piling up. And the problem with Bt crops go far beyond the creation of Bt-resistant insects.
Monsanto and the EPA swore that the genetically-engineered corn would only harm insects. The Bt toxin produced inside the plant would be completely destroyed in the human digestive system and would not have any impact at all on consumers, they claimed. Alas, they've been proven wrong on that account as well, because not only is Bt corn producing resistant "super-pests," researchers have also found that the Bt toxin can indeed wreak havoc on human health.
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Topical vs. Internal Toxins
Farmers have used Bt toxin from soil bacteria as a natural pesticide for years, and biotech companies have therefore claimed that Bt toxin has a "history of safe use in agriculture." But there's a huge difference between spraying it on plants, where it biodegrades in sunlight and can be carefully washed off, and genetically altering the plant to produce it internally.
Bt crops have the Bt toxin gene built in, so the toxin cannot be washed off. You simply cannot avoid consuming it. Furthermore, the plant-produced version of the poison is thousands of times more concentrated than the spray.
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Like I said above, if you are willing to go outside the norm by reading articles/blogs like the one posted you can at least find out what others think.
The above article quoted was written by:
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By Dr. Joseph Mercola, Contributor
Physician and author
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I looked him up, and he's definitely that outside voice I was trying to explain.
Joseph Mercola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola
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Joseph Michael Mercola (born 1954) is an alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and Web entrepreneur, who markets a variety of controversial dietary supplements and medical devices through his website, Mercola.com.
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In his defense I did click one of the citations provided, it's from 2011 and looks legitimate to me.
Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338670
Learned a new term anyway:
PAGMF (pesticides associated with genetically modified foods).