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Pesticides ≠ GMOs.

In fact, even organic foods can have pesticides. They can just use organic pesticides.

GMOs have no more “chemicals” than any other food. In fact, they often have less “chemicals”, since they can often reduce pesticide use on pest-resistant GMO crops.

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Most of the modifications in Genetically Modified Organisms are modifications that allow the plant to resist pesticides, no? True this would not be necessary for organic pesticides, but then also we could have food that is not derived from a GMO…

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I’m not an expert, but off the top of my head, there are GMOs for drought resistance, creating natural pesticides on leaves (of potatoes), increased vitamin A (for rice to prevent childhood blindness), higher yields, seed-free varieties of fruits, and many others.

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