GMOs are getting some airtime on the mainstream, I really like how he illustrates how the engineering has not stopped our use of pesticides, but increased them exponentially.
Most folks want to chose have a choice in feeding their families foods with GMO ingredients or foods with low pesticide use. GMOs came onto the market with the promise of higher yields, lower pesticide use. Yields on GMO crops fall after an initial increase, pesticide use has increased, super-weeds circumvent the Round Up (glyphosate) being sprayed on them and several insects have evolved to survive the pesticide sprays and the Bt crops that produce their own internal pesticides. Nature seems to find a way.
Most folks want to chose have a choice in feeding their families foods with GMO ingredients or foods with low pesticide use. GMOs came onto the market with the promise of higher yields, lower pesticide use. Yields on GMO crops fall after an initial increase, pesticide use has increased, super-weeds circumvent the Round Up (glyphosate) being sprayed on them and several insects have evolved to survive the pesticide sprays and the Bt crops that produce their own internal pesticides. Nature seems to find a way.
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