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Re:De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds by sampo on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @10:32PM (#17184580)
Actually, they use just as much glyphosate when growing wheat (not GMO) as when growing corn (maybe 80% is GMO) in the US.

    USA
    corn
      production     333 000 000 tons
      glyphosate use  69 000 000 lb
    wheat
      production      58 000 000 tons
      glyphosate use  17 000 000 lb
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044953/ (Table 3)
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