• mlg@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Organic quality most of the time is technically inferior to GMOs, especially in widely available produce because GMOs can be made to resist infection, last longer, and have greater nutritional value. Organic flavor is sometimes considered superior to GMOs.

    The real difference is whether or not the GMOs were designed to resist the next roundup ready nuclear fire pesticide, which then you end up ingesting which could have potential health effects.

    Or you know the insane amount of pesticide runoff that ends up in aquifers and contaminates other sources of food like chicken or cattle.

    And no, just because it’s called Herbacide, doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect other organisms lol.

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      8 months ago

      I think you have it backwards…

      “Organic” foods have to use older, less safe, more harmful, sometimes longer lasting & more bioavailable “organic” pesticides and herbicides. They just have worse risk profiles overall vs their synthetic counterparts.

      While GMOs often are able to utilize newer synthetic “safer” pesticides and herbicides that they have been genetically modified to survive. (They all still suck for you and I to be fair, some less than others)