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Can someone explain GMO/Monsanto to me?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 43542490:MV8yMjk5NTQ2XzM5MTU0MjI3X0ExQzY4M0VF] In the quest for a good herbicide. They found glyphosate, aka roundup. It affects a gene(protein) in plants. All other life forms do not have this gene. There are only a very few species of plants that do not have it also. Spray glyphosate (aka Roundup) on a plant. the plant absorbs it, the chemical glyphosate attachs to the gene (a protein) and the plant dies. (in a nutshell) you can find the literature to find out more detail if you wish. So now we have a near universal herbicide. However we don't want the Crop be it corn, soy, wheat, rice to die, just the weeds. So they modify the genes of the crop so that the crop can withstand the herbicide glyphosate aka roundup. That is it. nothing more nothing less. the soy, corn etc have been genetically modified to resist the chemical glyphosate aka roundup. [/quote]
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Whats the deal? I see posts about GMO seeds and other things GMO and Monsanto. I dont really want to start any new research at the moment, so if i could just have a brief description of why they are so bad?
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