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On 'Unnatural' GMOs: How One Company Poisons the World through Weedkiller (m.youtube.com)
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  • [ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think.
    • [ ] Company called Monsanto (now under another company called Bayer) made a weedkiller called Roundup which contains glyphosate, which is a possible carcinogen
    • [ ] Roundup killed crops as well as weeds, so they sold GMO seeds that could withstand Roundup
    • [ ] However, due to the monopoly/doninance of Monsanto, a lot of food, both processed and unprocessed, contains GMOs, which also contain a lot of glyphosate (which may be bad for you)
    • [ ] To cover up further investigation of glyphosate, they captured and bribed the EPA to look the other way and even to support Monsanto's research -- at least until the WHO cane out in 2015 and said that glyphosate could be carcinogenic
    • [ ] So GMOs aren't inherently bad, but they can be used for evil purposes like these
    • [ ] So try and at least buy organic food or grow your own food to avoid glyphosate
    • [ ] However according to a youtube comment, Roundup is also used to make plants mature faster...

Edit: misspelling, changed Montesanto to Monsanto

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[–] StryderNotavi@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

GMO crops often use glyphosate for weed control, which works because the frequently the GMO crops themselves have been engineered to be resistant to glyphosate.

That's not the case with non GMO crops because glyphosate isn't selective - you'd kill your crop along with the weeds if you tried the same approach with non GMO plants.

Hence the use of GMOs is frequently coupled with more intensive use of glyphosate.