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Originally Posted by redforever
However, more chemicals are used to control weeds and chemicals can have long term side effects, and this is definitely a con.
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I don't agree.
We have chemicals for all conventional crops. Moving to GMO varieties doesn't mean allowing farmers to spray chemicals, it means allowing farmers to spray different chemicals. Quite often, safer chemicals. In some cases, no chemicals (ex: GMO 'Shaw' wheat is midge resistant. This eliminates the application of the extremely dangerous chlorpyrifos (Lorsban) insecticide for midge control. LD50 in mice is 60 mg... 70 times as toxic as glyphosate for comparison).