My only criticism is that it allows corporations to copyright crop strains and penalize farmers for growing from their own crop without paying. It terms of production, nutrition and getting resources to struggling populations, GMOs are an absolute win.
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Well here's a link to a CBS news story about glyphosate, an ingredient in Roundup, found in General Mills and Quaker products. It's hard not to believe the crop is going to be absorbing at least some of this poison through the roots.
@Pikachu eating modified food that has been drenched in round-up can't be all that good for you. Also science chemically altering nutrients in food, just can't be a good thing.
@Pikachu I consider it a criticism of both. Farmers rely more heavily on herbicides now than pre GMO. The more being used, the higher the chances of it getting into us.
When it comes to weedkillers, though, the picture gets more murky. For one thing, the effect of GMOs has been different in corn than in soybeans. Farmers who switched to glyphosate-tolerant corn also switched herbicides, and used less total herbicide than farmers did on conventional corn — for a while. In the years since 2007, however, glyphosate-tolerant corn got sprayed with more weedkillers, as measured in kilograms per acre, than corn without that GMO trait.
@Pikachu It doesn't even matter much whether glyphosates are good or bad for human beings.
They are catastrophically bad for fundamentally and absolutely essential wild life (like pollinating insects) without which there's not much point having a farm in the first place.
