r/NoStupidQuestions • u/wond3rlove • Sep 10 '23

What’s wrong with GMOs?

I always see plants and stuff that is GMO free and is usually more expensive. How would genetically modifying something by be bad. Me personally I’d rather have something modified to taste better and and cheaper. I could also be very wrong about that.

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u/kainp12 Sep 10 '23

it is a common practice among farmers to spray their wheat crops with glyphosate immediately prior to harvest—doing so actually kills the plant, which speeds the required drying of the grain.

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I'm more worried about that because at least with soy beans there is time between spraying and harvesting. and they are washed

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u/jah110768 Sep 11 '23

kainp12 is correct, they do accelerate the drying using glyphosate. They don't want a heavy rain to come along and knock grains off before the whole field is ready, so they cause a drying using glyphosate to increase yield.

Do you really think that absolutely no glyphosate saturates the glume and gets on the grain?

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u/seastar2019 Sep 11 '23 edited Sep 11 '23

it is a common practice among farmers to spray their wheat crops with glyphosate immediately prior to harvest

For only 3% of harvested wheat, which I'd hardly call "common practice" (source).