Hillary Clinton is Just Plain Wrong on GMOs

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16. If you're going to claim factual errors, you better not make them yourself.

As scientists release studies, each one more alarming than the next, revealing the devastating health and environmental hazards of the herbicides required to grow GMO crops

Wrong.

Some GMO crops are engineered to resist herbicides. Those herbicides are not required to grow those GMO crops, as this article claims. The crop will grow without the herbicide.

Other GMO crops are not resistant to herbicides, and would die when exposed to those herbicides.

Hillary would do well to go back to her science books. Here are the facts, as understood by every biologist. Seed hybridization occurs when the seeds of two compatible parent plants, within the same species, are crossed, either in a controlled environment or in nature.

Wrong. Hybridization between species can occur.

First, there's the separate species that can breed together. Ever heard of a boysenberry?

Second, grafting has been used for centuries. A process which most definitely requires "human intervention". Despite the article's claim that "human intervention" is unique to GMOs.

She does this by focusing on GE drought-resistant seeds—as if engineering seeds for drought-resistance were a major focus on the biotech industry.It’s not

Because time never marches on. We're still doing the same science today that we did in 1970.

If we’re truly serious about averting a global warming disaster, reducing carbon emissions isn’t enough. We have to acknowledge, and harness, potential of organic, regenerative agriculture to reverse global warming by sequestering carbon.

It is not possible to grow enough plants to fix enough carbon to stop global warming. GMO or not. It is even less possible when you restrict it to the lower tonnes/acre of organic farming.

Stopping global warming is going to require drastic changes in how we live, in order to reduce CO2 emissions. Well beyond farming.

A recent ABC News poll revealed that 52 percent of Americans believe food containing GMOs are unsafe, while 13 percent are “unsure.”

48% of Americans believe we are being visited by extra terrestrial species.
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Significant numbers of people will claim that a newly-built cell phone tower is causing headaches....before it is powered on.
Here's a bunch of things the public are sure will kill you....when they most likely won't.

"The public believes it" is about the worst possible proof you can have of something. The public believes all sorts of things that aren't true.