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Originally Posted by Azure
You seem to be missing the point. The issue isn't that GMOs are evil, bad or cancerous, but that they require an extreme high use of chemicals to be sustainable, which in itself is not sustainable at all.
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This is a straw man argument - a genetically modified crop doesn't have to have increased resistance to herbicides, that is simply one of the primary desirable characteristics many such crops are designed to have. It is perfectly possible to have GMO crops that are no more resistant to glyphosate than non-modified crops.
As far as the phosphates and other undesirable chemicals from fertilizers getting into the ecosystem, that is a completely separate issue that has nothing to do with whether a crop is GMO or not, but rather a consequence of the farming methods used to raise the crop.