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The big pharma/food companies are pushing really hard to this.

Daily reminder that the "GMO for herbicides and pesticides" actually means that they can spray the crops with SHITLOAD MORE PESTICIDES since it doesn't actually provide natural insect protection but it makes the plant more resilient to those sprays.

So as the side effect of that you now eat shitload more of those insecticides and herbicides in your plants.

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> So as the side effect of that you now eat shitload more of those insecticides and herbicides in your plants.

And it fucks up the soil more, so in the long run you'll need even more modified crops or more aggressive cultivation methods.

Let's continue with our half assed profit motivated solutions, I'm sure it'll work great

The article is about GMO drought-resistant crops. They use water more efficiently than conventional crops, which were bred for a water-rich environment.

But not yet the C4 cycle, right?

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