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pzmyers 🦑 @pzmyers@octodon.social

The Non-GMO Project is a lie. The whole anti-GMO movement is a luddite scheme co-opted as a marketing ploy for the so-called "natural" foods industry.

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pzmyers 🦑 @pzmyers@octodon.social

I'm curious to see if I get more pushback on this from the more liberal Mastodon community than I do from the more conservative birdsite.

But then maybe people here are just plain smarter & better informed.

mx. fluffy @fluffy@queer.party

@pzmyers personally I seek out GMO-labeled products because my assumption is that they are making more efficient use of land and resources, with a more robust crop yield and less water and pesticide use.

DrNathaniel @DrNathaniel

@fluffy @pzmyers
Yeah, but that's not really true, is it? One of the biggest and earliest is RoundUp-Ready wheat/corn/etc. Those are specifically designed to have herbicides dumped on them in huge quantities without damaging the crop. Market efficiency doesn't translate to environmental efficiency.

pzmyers 🦑 @pzmyers@octodon.social

@DrNathaniel @fluffy That is inaccurate. RoundUp-Ready crops could use smaller amounts of herbicide for more effective results -- they actually reduced the amount of herbicide used.

I understand, though, that herbicide use has been steadily rising since…as more resistance emerges in weeds?

DrNathaniel @DrNathaniel

@pzmyers @fluffy Yeah, they COULD be used that way. But I think agribusinesses simply dump the stuff on in order to minimize risk of bad crop yields.

Based on impressions though; I probably shouldn't spout off.

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