Let’s Discuss GMO Effects on the Environment | GMO Answers

How do GMOs affect the environment? If you’re interested in conservation and sustainable farming methods, then you should find out just how the environment benefits from GMOs.

People sometimes assume that GMOs are bad for the environment. But, did you know that GMOs are one of the best tools farmers can use to protect our natural resources, like water, land and air?

During the last 20 years, GMO technology has helped reduce pesticide application by 8% and improve crop yields by 22%.

Genetically modified organisms are a type of plant breeding technology which is designed to help farmers preserve resources and use less chemicals, like pesticides, in their farming methods. GMO seeds that are pest-resistant allow farmers to use less pesticide applications.

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I love the environment so I don’t think I like GMOs.

Actually, GMOs are one of the best tools farmers have to protect and preserve water, air, land and even limit the impact of climate change.

I don’t know – that’s not what I hear?

Please let me explain: GMOs are one of several plant breeding technologies that help farmers grow more food using less inputs like pesticides and land. In fact, during the last 20 years, GMOs have reduced pesticide applications by more than 8% and increased crop yields by 22%. This increased yield means farmers kept 48 million acres of land from agricultural production, decreasing potential deforestation and harm to ecosystems. Without GMO seeds, we would need to convert the equivalent of almost all of our US national parks to farmland to get the same amount of yield. GMOs also help improve air quality. GMO crops allow farmers to till their fields less often, using less tractor fuel and releasing trapped CO2 in the soil, reducing carbon emissions by 58.8 billion lbs. That’s like removing nearly 12 million cars from the road for a whole year. GMOs also help reduce water pollution. Less soil till also means better moisture retention in the soil and reduced run-off, saving more than 6,400 bodies of water from clogging by soil, crop residue and chemicals. GMOs benefit not only the environment but also our daily lives. Without them we would have increased CO2 emissions, crop yield declines and a major loss of forest and pasture land. Overall, less sustainability on how we grow our food.

Thanks – this is great information, but I still have a lot of questions.

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GMO ANSWERS ACROSS THE WEB

[мухаммадрахимов-цю]

Thank you. It really helped me for my presentation

[tinalobaodavis]

Not to mention that they can have more nutrition than normal foods! Like how the purple tomatoes have extra antioxidants that can clean the body of dangerous free radicals!

[stonejazz]

It is not the matter of how good or bad to us and biosphere
since we've been rude enough to both not to have mere right to talk about.
What matters is our attitude to the law of nature.
And as far as we have a choice,
we have to ask ourselves if we really have to do this much just to justify that number not to survive?
World food is no problem in amount. Distribution is the real problem.
We have to have a revolution on this matter.
I got my own pondering on this subject.
@daIk

[myaking]

This really helped with my work thank you

[navarrorodneyv.]

Can anyone show me the Infographics of GOMOs?

[ronaldmcdonald]

Thank you for posting this, I get a lot of grief from "organic" enthusiasts. I used to go to a college called the glass house college, their food was 100% "organic" and it was ****ING TERRIBLE! "Organic" is the biggest con going. I have supported GMO's from the age of 9 and I'm now 32! There really is nothing to fear from GMO's! A carrot is a carrot!

[tabanaokeithaprila.]

Hi, can you please tell me what are the certain issues of GMO with it's benefits and detriments? Can you please comment the link? Thank you, so much!! I hope you can help me ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[leojefninal]

Hi module hahah #earth ang life science 😘

[tabanaokeithaprila.]

Can you please tell me what are the certain issues of GMO?

[erickaparaoan]

The module of my brother brought me here

[JCofficial]

You should've mentioned what GMOs stand for

[exnzxfate]

POV:You're here cuz of your ELS module

[saniyanov]

I am currently doing a research paper on the effects of GMO on the environment. Can anyone guide me to some scholarly/academic sources?

[indiramukherjee]

But GMO has some disadvantages and ethical issues aslo. Please discuss parallely hazards about GMO..

[kidzmarradi]

Kung di dahil sa module di aq mapapadpad dito😭😭😭

[kencamontoy]

Hey can i ask if what are the animals that undergo GMO and their results before and after taking it

[militaryfamusa]

If you love the environment then you should be concerned about EVERYTHING being disposable nowadays. Plastics in our oceans, plastics in our clothes, computers and cell phones outdated every 3 years, cheap disposable cars, appliances, furniture, everything the breaks or wears out in one season. GMO's are making people sick. There are NO BENEFITS to modifying the food people eat. If you actually care about the environment then take care of the stuff that is effecting the environment. Messing with our food effects people not the environment. COW FARTS NEVER KILLED ANYONE, but GMO's are and you know it.

[dubmothefuckingstep]

I ate gmo tomato and almost trown up, I was like wtf is this
Like i eat something with water in it without taste, same shit like strawberries
Big but tasteless
I wonder how people dont have problem eating shit

[balsarmy]

What a reversed thinking. If every plant was gmo and was resistant to insects then inects who eat GMO would go extinct. Moreover, GMO allowas farmers to use less pesticides, but more dangerous that kill everything. So the overall damage is bigger

[neighborbob]

They forgot the main effect. GMOs slowly kill you.