# Is GMO/GE food actually harmful or "bad"? What about treated foods?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 25, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gmo-ge-food-actually-harmful-or-bad-what-about-treated-foods/789817 "2017-06-25T10:19:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gmo-ge-food-actually-harmful-or-bad-what-about-treated-foods/789817/100 "2017-07-07T13:50:54Z")

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Here is the oft-cited corn pesticide decrease:

> [@I don't buy "organic," because there's no nutritional difference](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-buy-organic-because-theres-no-nutritional-difference/702516/71):
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> Incidentally, the use of genetic modification has massively reduced the amount of pesticides used on some crops. For corn, it’s down from ~200 g/ha in 1996 to ~10 g/ha in 2010. And yields have gone up, so the amount used per bushel has gone down even more.
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> [http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/pesticides/infographic.jpg](http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/pesticides/infographic.jpg)

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