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Achilleaze

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8. Cutting Through the Hype on GMOs - Mother Jones
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 08:32 AM
Oct 2016

"...Hakim compared US yields of crops like corn and sugar beets with the same crops grown in Europe (charts here), where GMOs aren't widely used. He also compared pesticide-use rates. The result: "The United States and Canada have gained no discernible advantage in yields—food per acre—when measured against Western Europe, a region with comparably modernized agricultural producers like France and Germany."

The result, he notes, is consistent with a recent National Academy of Sciences report that found that "there was little evidence that the introduction of genetically modified crops in the United States had led to yield gains beyond those seen in conventional crops."

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/new-york-times-cuts-through-hype-gmos

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