| Northern corn - 4/20/2015 08:19
What if the use of gmos effects our children or grand children.
The "use" of GMOs doesn't effect people's health anymore than non-GMO conventional crops. Without GMOs, you'd still be using pesticides, and most likely more toxic ones than glyphosate and Bt. Besides, we eat very few GMOs directly, it's mostly cattle who do, most of what we eat directly is heavily processed, like corn/soybean/cotton/canola oil, beet sugar or corn syrup.
I often eat organic, but there's no sweet corn, zucchini or papaya (which can be GMOs) among the fruits and produce that Consumer Reports recommend to eat organic because of pesticide residue: http://pressroom.consumerreports.org/pressroom/2015/03/my-entry.htm...
If there were any pesticide residue on the GMO varieties, it would be for sweet corn that has the herbicide tolerance trait only, as zucchini and papaya were engineered to be tolerant of certain diseases, and thus should contain less pesticide residue than their non-GMO parents. |
What benefits for the consumer does production ag's GMO are there
