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On 'Unnatural' GMOs: How One Company Poisons the World through Weedkiller (m.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TerryTPlatypus to c/socialism

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7125786

[ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think.

[ ] Company called Monsanto (now under another company called Bayer) made a weedkiller called Roundup which contains glyphosate, which is a possible carcinogen

[ ] Roundup killed crops as well as weeds, so they sold GMO seeds that could withstand Roundup

[ ] However, due to the monopoly/doninance of Monsanto, a lot of food, both processed and unprocessed, contains GMOs, which also contain a lot of glyphosate (which may be bad for you)

[ ] To cover up further investigation of glyphosate, they captured and bribed the EPA to look the other way and even to support Monsanto's research -- at least until the WHO cane out in 2015 and said that glyphosate could be carcinogenic

[ ] So GMOs aren't inherently bad, but they can be used for evil purposes like these

[ ] So try and at least buy organic food or grow your own food to avoid glyphosate

[ ] However according to a youtube comment, Roundup is also used to make plants mature faster...

Edit: misspelling, changed Montesanto to Monsanto

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