Glyphosate is an herbicide, not a pesticide.
BT plants would have greatly reduced the need for pesticides, but we somehow decided gmos were bad
Glyphosate is an herbicide, not a pesticide.
BT plants would have greatly reduced the need for pesticides, but we somehow decided gmos were bad
Silverseren@kbin.social 1 month ago
All herbicides are pesticides. Pesticide is the umbrella term for herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, ect.
Agreed on BT plants. The funny thing about that one is that BT toxin is a common pesticide used in organic farming too (and all other farming) because it actually is so effective and non-toxic to vertebrates (hence why it was used to make the BT toxin producing plants in the first place). And yet the anti-GMO groups still fearmongered about the plants anyways, never seeing the hypocrisy in relation to what organic farming uses.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I downvoted you at first because I thought there’s no way that’s true, but looked it up. I figured there’d be a different umbrella term.