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The original promise of GMOs was food products healthier for the environment utilizing less pesticides. The real world application of GMOs fails to deliver on t
by IXxXI 8y ago
The original promise of GMOs was food products healthier for the environment utilizing less pesticides. The real world application of GMOs fails to deliver on this promise, utilizing greater quantities of pesticides placing us in a worse situation than we were before they were developed. GMOs have typically resorted to exploitive and predatory business practices which fostered negative implications for the farming industry as a whole.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> The real world application of GMOs fails to deliver on this promise, utilizing greater quantities of pesticides AFAIK the whole point of pesticide-resistance GMOs is precisely to use less pesticide, and of a less toxic kind, than in case of regular farming. > GMOs have typically resorted to exploitive and predatory business practices which fostered negative implications for the farming industry as a whole. s/GMOs/GMO-employing companies/, which is essentially large agricultural companies. Alas, if I'm to believe the HN thread from couple of days ago[0], the main issues people blame on GMOs don't exist (lack of genetic diversity), or aren't really a property of GMOs in the first place (lack of "seed saving") - many (including IP protection) apply to "normal" or even "organic" farming as well. -- [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18923957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18923957