Greenwashing GM Crops

The biotechnology industry is aggressively promoting the environmental sustainability of genetically modified (GM) crops. The industry claims that GM crops can reduce herbicide use, increase yields to feed a hungry planet, and develop new crops that are adapted to climate change.

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The biotechnology industry is aggressively promoting the environmental sustainability of genetically modified (GM) crops. The industry claims that GM crops can reduce herbicide use, increase yields to feed a hungry planet, and develop new crops that are adapted to climate change.

Monsanto advertises that biotech crops can feed the world “from a raindrop,” suggesting that GM crops are especially climate change resistant. But this greenwashing doesn’t change the reality of “agribusiness as usual:” using GM crops along with more agrochemicals, more fossil fuels and more intensive agricultural production.