The Non-GMO Project is a lie. The whole anti-GMO movement is a luddite scheme co-opted as a marketing ploy for the so-called "natural" foods industry.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/23/non-gmo-is-a-marketing-scam-nothing-more/ https://octodon.social/media/35jQB6U-d_L0_9s0Y7E
I'm curious to see if I get more pushback on this from the more liberal Mastodon community than I do from the more conservative birdsite.
But then maybe people here are just plain smarter & better informed.
@pzmyers personally I seek out GMO-labeled products because my assumption is that they are making more efficient use of land and resources, with a more robust crop yield and less water and pesticide use.
@DrNathaniel @fluffy That is inaccurate. RoundUp-Ready crops could use smaller amounts of herbicide for more effective results -- they actually reduced the amount of herbicide used.
I understand, though, that herbicide use has been steadily rising since…as more resistance emerges in weeds?
@fluffy @pzmyers Right? People scream about roundup but you actually have to use a lot less pesticides with modern ones than you would with older kinds.