Most of the "for" arguments for GMOs are false.
Still;
GMOs can make a plant or animal manufacture a
pharmaceutical product.
Against
it;
Cross-pollinations have accidentally introduced drugs
into the food supply
Cross-pollinations
have spread GE genomes into neighboring fields and into the wild, not only injuring the
capacity or farmers to choose non-GMO crops but even to injure the genetic variety in
the native and wild fields.
GMO
seeds can't be saved and thus engineer a form of crop-based feudalism or
share-cropping
GMO
food crops are restricted to those that can be shipped for a market, thus they tend to
supplant local food systems. This has lead to dislocated farm families and workers,
aggravating famine;
Also unemployment,
poverty, homelessness and illegal immigration.
BT
crops engineer pesticide to be IN the food instead of "on", where we could at least wash
some of it off.
Modifications cause us to eat things that
cause unknown reactions, not just allergies but there are disturbing and not fully
pursued evidence of causing sterility, genetic changes in the consumer, birth defects
and other as yet unrecognized syndromes;
Glyphosate
ready crops enforce mono-cropping. Intercropping produces more "product" per acre and
tends to maintain soils, while monocropping depletes soil
rapidly
Heavy
herbicide and pesticide rounds injure both soil and those men and women who work the
soil
GMOs
reduce crop diversity, which makes crops more vulnerable to
disease
GMOs
reduce crop diversity, which are critical in finding crops suitable to survive marginal
locations and weather extremes
Heavily
damaged soils associated with this type of growing simply do not have anything left to
impart strong nutrient values to our food. This has led to an overall reduction in food
value for every calorie we eat. <scroll to “Myth Two”
GMOs
are causing activation of super weeds both by the rampant use of one kind of pesticide
and by the intra genetic transfer of pesticide-resistant genes or simply
pollens
GMO
sourced drugs and anti-biotics are accelerating drug-resistant
germs
While
GMOs promise lowered use of chemicals and the ability to rely on a single set of
equipment expensesv, in truth after a couple of years, use of external chemicals rise
and overreach the original levels fairly rapidly.
Now
the superweeds, both with GE genes and those which have emerged from the wild, are
forcing farmers to re-purchase equipment they had had prior to glyphosate
dependence
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