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Re:Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutriti... by bostonpete on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:46PM (#16523264)
Yes, even the USDA standards, which I think is what the GP was referring to, seem to prohibit GMO...

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2013/05/17/organic-101-can-g...

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Re:Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutriti... by guelo on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:41PM (#16524726)
GMO is basically equivalent with spraying of glyphosate. The whole point of most GMO is to make the plants resistant to glyphosate. If you don't want to eat glyphosate you avoid GMO foods.
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Re:Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutriti... by rflrob on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:05PM (#16525393)
There are different kinds of GMO—in addition to RoundupReady (glyphosate resistant) crops, there are Bt crops (mainly corn, as far as I know) that react in an insect’s alkaline gut to form incecticidal protein fragments. The bacterial source of the genes is also used as an organic incecticide, and has no plausible mechanism for causing harm in humans that I am aware of.
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