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Does "organic" include GMO-free? I thought it just meant pesticide-free, and I don't take any issue with GMO foods.
by jakob223 9y ago
Does "organic" include GMO-free? I thought it just meant pesticide-free, and I don't take any issue with GMO foods.
- bostonpete 9y agoYes, even the USDA standards, which I think is what the GP was referring to, seem to prohibit GMO... https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2013/05/17/organic-101-can-gmos-be-used-organic-products https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2013/05/17/organic-101-can-g...
- guelo 9y agoGMO is basically equivalent with spraying of glyphosate. The whole point of most GMO is to make the plants resistant to glyphosate. If you don't want to eat glyphosate you avoid GMO foods.
- rflrob 9y agoThere are different kinds of GMO—in addition to RoundupReady (glyphosate resistant) crops, there are Bt crops (mainly corn, as far as I know) that react in an insect’s alkaline gut to form incecticidal protein fragments. The bacterial source of the genes is also used as an organic incecticide, and has no plausible mechanism for causing harm in humans that I am aware of.
- gowld 9y agoOrganic doesn't mean pesticide-free at all. It only bans certain classes of pesticides.