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GMO Soy Is Scarier Than You Think

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By Tom Philpott [1]
MotherJones [1]

Excerpts:

Soybeans are the second-largest US crop after corn [2], covering about a quarter of American farmland. We grow more soybeans than any other country except Brazil [3]. According to the US Department of Agriculture [4], more than 90 percent of the soybeans churned out on US farms each year are genetically engineered to withstand herbicides, nearly all of them involving one called Roundup [5]. Organic production, by contrast, is marginal—it accounts for less than 1 percent of total American acreage devoted to soy [6]. (The remaining 9 percent or so of soybeans are conventionally grown, but not genetically modified.)

Given soy’s centrality to our food and agriculture systems, the findings of a new study [7] published in the peer-reviewed journal Food Chemistry are worth pondering. The authors found that Monsanto’s ubiquitous Roundup Ready soybeans, engineered to withstand its own blockbuster herbicide, contain more herbicide residues than their non-GMO counterparts. The team also found that the GM beans are nutritionally inferior.

Read the Full Article here [1].

Learn more about the dark side of soy [8].

 

The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food

Cover image of the Whole Soy Story [9]

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