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		collinmanderson on May 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphos... There's chance GMOs will be able to be pesticide free, so that way you can avoid putting cancer-causing chemicals on the food in the first place. That seems like a huge win to me.

pstuart on May 11, 2018 [–]

Or it could backfire horribly and create populations of insects that are immune to their protections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize#Res...

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