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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3164362" data-attributes="member: 19675">Nah- allergies are the result of a problem in your immune system.  Basically, your body is treating an otherwise harmless substance* as if it were a disease-causing bacteria or virus.The trick, of course, is that you have to be exposed to a substance more than once to actually trigger the response.The modern practice of using corn, soy, peanuts and certain other things into various processed foods as sweeteners, thickeners, and fillers is radically increasing exposure to those substances.  An uptick in allergies to those substances in societies that consume large amounts of processed foods is inevitable.If, as you suspect, it were because of the GM effects, the people who were exposed to those GM strains would also show allergies to the sources of the spliced-in genetic material.  As in, if corn allergies were related to a GM strain of corn featuring a beef protein, then you'd see a proportionate increase in allergies to beef.And there hasn't been any correlation between corn, soy, or peanut allergies and their GM relations.* some allergies are simply genetic and are a result of evolutionary response to actual toxins, like the allergy to poison ivy toxins, which occurs in something like 80% of humanity.</blockquote>