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Silent3

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5. The way some people talk, you'd think GMO = glyphosate

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 09:43 AM

May 2015

And even where glyphosate comes into this, it's a bigger risk to butterflies than humans who consume it.

The environmental concern about drenching crops in Roundup is the most legitimate GMO-related concern of which I'm aware. That does not, however, make every single GMO the equivalent of megadoses of glyphosate, or make it a high-minded moral stance to treat all GMOs as if they are POISON!1!!!!!!11!

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Washington Post: GMO's are not "poison." [View all] Archae May 2015 OP

Written by rightwing Michael Gerson, aide to Bush I and Jack Kemp, author of "Heroic Conservatism" villager May 2015 #1

Correct. But many were specifically developed to be used with poisons, like Roundup. pnwmom May 2015 #2

Not poison, but they also need to be heavily regulated. Oneironaut May 2015 #3

A pair of pennies MFrohike May 2015 #4

The way some people talk, you'd think GMO = glyphosate Silent3 May 2015 #5