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[InquilineKea]

No GMO-food can be labelled as "organic"

In terms of cost, GMO-food might be somewhere in between "organic" and "non-organic"

There are very legitimate health risks with pesticides (see http://www.quora.com...wer/Alex-K-Chen). But the risks of GMO (to human health) are overblown

(although neonicotinoid pesticides are okay)

[Skötkonung]

GMO can bring better nutritional value but more often than not, it is used to create higher levels of herbicide and pesticide resistance. LIke Round-Up resistant soy and corn. Also, GMO food can be used to control seed distribution and make farmers beholden to large agribusinesses like Monsanto.

[evolvedhuman2012]

i don't think its wise to consider gmos safe since researchs were shut down at the first sign of trouble. you think the process of cloning plus insertion is safe? its a flaw science. there enough reports of the government working with the biotech industry unless people deny that.

Edited by evolvedhuman2012, 24 April 2013 - 10:25 AM.

[dz93]

GMO's come round up ready. They are supposed to be able to withstand all the round up you can dump on it. However humans can't. So yes GMO's will be treated with pesticides the majority of the time.

[gamesguru]

There are some GMOs designed to produce their own pesticides (some of them, alledgedly, borrowed naturally from brocolli, pyrethrins, etc), so that the farmer doesn't need to apply any pesticides. GMOs with inserted pyrethrins genes are usually not labeled as such, and I presume they are far outnumbered by the ones that are glyphosate ready. Another interesting tid-bit is that French studies are confirming that round-up ready plants are toxic to mammals even when they are never sprayed with round-up...it seems the whole idea of inserting genes at random was a bad idea.

And as for the larger picture, GMOs which aren't sprayed with pesticides are probably still sprayed with herbicides or fungicides. So I would stick with organics at large, and minimize your consumption of conventional and GMO produce. Organics are also grown without chemical fertilizers, which can be contaminated with heavy metals or wash away, leaving the plants nutritionally deficient.