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by colechristensen 2055 days ago
Resistance to pests, not pesticides. This makes producers use fewer or no pesticides, not more. A naturally occuring pest resistance gene will be copied from one organism to the crop in question.

And the herbicide resistance usually allows for the usage of safer herbicides.
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dawidw 2055 days ago
> This makes producers use [...] no pesticides

Ask yourself: do you have a choice? Are you really able to buy all products for any meal - really, any meal - that they were not treated with pesticides?

Another interesting question: is it possible to buy anywhere (even on the Internet) non-GMO corn? You know, the original one, created by nature which were possible to have 200 years ago?

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colechristensen 2055 days ago
>Ask yourself: do you have a choice? Are you really able to buy all products for any meal - really, any meal - that they were not treated with pesticides?

Yes, absolutely.

It would really depend on what you consider "a pesticide" and if organic alternatives counted and if at that which ones, regardless it is still quite possible, you just have to understand where your food comes from.

> Another interesting question: is it possible to buy anywhere (even on the Internet) non-GMO corn?

Say you're a farmer in the midwest, here's a place to buy non-GMO seed corn to grow on your farm:

https://www.alseed.com/product-category/corn/viking-conventi...

Non-GMO corn is common, the supply chain is very aware if the product is GMO or not.

>You know, the original one, created by nature which were possible to have 200 years ago?

No such thing. Corn/maize has been manipulated by humans for millennia, the wild relative is essentially not recognizable as anything other than an ordinary wild grass species.

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dawidw 2055 days ago
> Yes, absolutely.

> It would really depend on what you consider "a pesticide" and [...]

OK, you're right, I agree here with you 100%.

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