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It isn’t. The anti-GMO fearmongers who tell you it is are liars. They’re the food equivalent of antivaxxers.GM corn is engineered to require less herbicide and less pesticide (not more, as a factually incorrect answer wrongly stated), and to be resistant to drought.

There are a number of GMO corn products the company (my employer) has introduced that have been approved for human health and safety.The GMO traits in corn Monsanto has gotten approved include Roundup Ready for weed control flexibility and Bt insect control traits in sweet corn and those traits and drought tolerance for field corn. There’s a lot of safety information[1] on the company’s website. Additionally Dow AgroSciences has received safety approvals for herbicide and insecticidal traits for corn[2] as well. And I can’t forget that Syngenta has GMO sweet corn on the market as well!Monsanto doesn’t have rice breeding programs and didn’t have wheat breeding until 2009, but they are now working on a range of wheat product[3]s.3/19/17 Edited to add some links to posts from farmers who have grown / eaten the GMO sweet corn personally:Growing Sweet Corn - My Fearless KitchenThankful Thursday – TechnologyThe Different Types of CornAnd a few from my company’s blog:The Buzz on Sweet CornLining Up For Fresh Sweet Corn, GMO Sweet CornA Farm Family's Obsession is Sweet Corn | Beyond the Rows I love the kid’s excitement when he sees the corn!Four U.S. Growers Share Their Obsession (for) Sweet CornFootnotes[1] Are Biotech Products Safe?[2] Dow AgroSciences - Corn[3] Monsanto's Wheat Platform

To the best of my knowledge there are no studies that indicate corn (GMO or otherwise) is toxic to cattle. That said, an overabundance of carbohydrates in any species diet can be harmful.To say that ruminants were never meant to eat seeds is rather false. In a natural grassland environment the grasses make seedheads that the cows would eat that would have concentrated carbohydrates but not nearly at the levels at which we provide cows today. Many cattle are fed diets high in carbohydrates such as starches from grains in order make them grow fast enough that they're profitable to raise.Feeding for the fastest growth possible is dangerous not because of an individual feed ingredient but because of the rate at which they're gaining weight. Asking an organism to process large amounts of starches that breakdown into sugars is taxing on the internal organs. Liver abcesses in feedlot cattle are a major concern for producers although not a leading cause of death.Surprisingly respiratory diseases are the leading causes of mortality among feedlot cattle. http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/23030/PDFStresses such as transport, handling, ration changes, etc. are thought to be the leading risk factors in development of respiratory diseases and cattle. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1680129/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2275341/There could feasibly be a link between corn and respiratory diseases due to inflammation of mucous membranes as a result of allergic reactions to compounds in the grain. I'm unaware of any studies that suggest this but it would be worth looking into.Overall my answer would be that cattle have been eating grains for many years without problems as a result of it so they shouldn't be considered toxic in my opinion.