American scientists from the University of Virginia establish the impact of GM crops on the ecological situation.
Scientists have not yet determined how affect products containing GMOs on the human body. Most consider them harmful to the inhabitants of the planet (and both people and animals).
However, there are proponents of the cultivation of such “artificial” cultures. They argue that the modified genes of these plants do not allow them to become “victims” of insect pests and reduce the use of pesticides. Scientists conducted a study examining the impact of GM crops on the environment from 1998 to 2011. On the one hand, the use of pesticides, really, was smaller, but farmers began to use herbicides to defeat the spread of weeds, which become more resistant to the substance to glyphosate.
Statistics show that, when the cultivation of GM soya consumption of herbicides, on the contrary, increased by 30 percent, while maize cultivation has decreased only by 1.3 percent. Because researchers cannot give a clear assessment of the impact of GM crops on the environment.
