You can’t see the possibility of unintended consequences? Even as a thought experiment? You’re convinced and willing to gamble your life on the absolute infallibility of human tinkering with other organism’s DNA? You’re waiting for a journal article before you can imagine this possibility on your own?

Genetically modified crops that have not been properly studied can cause irreversible harm to a country's ecology and economy. The crops grown by man over centuries that have been carefully selected and cross bred to display traits that we find desirable (sometimes for the wrong reasons) are far different that foods…

Those are the effects we know about. What about the effects that we do not know about until years and years after they are out? For all we know, GMO produce could be making bees more susceptible to the fungus that is causing massive kill offs of bees. Or making bats more susceptible to the fungus that kills them in…