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Originally Posted by Ashartus
I agree you have a point about the pesticides. Trace amounts are one thing, but making a pesticide-resistant crop so you can use more pesticide doesn't seem like a great idea to me.
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But that was not the reason for making a pesticide resistant crop. It's entirely wrong actually, as Monsanto's GMO varieties don't tolerate
more glyphosate, they just tolerate glyphosate period. Prior to developing this trait, glyphosate would wipe out those crops as it is a non-selective herbicide, killing every plant it comes into contact with. It's this exact reason that glyphosate tolerant crops had such appeal to growers. They required
less pesticide than conventional varieties, because the pesticides that canola/corn/soybeans are naturally tolerant to (we were using pesticides on crops long before GMOs were introduced) are all selective in the weeds they kill, meaning multiple applications of different pesticides on each crop.
TBQH, I don't understand the anti-GMO movement. What are the cons of GMO crops?