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First, the cultivation of genetically engineered crops has drastically reduced the use of chemical pesticides, resulting in less runoff into waterways and ground water and fewer poisonings of farmers and their families.
FORBES: Bittman of the 'New York Times': Always Out To Lunch
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As that report predicted when the regulation was proposed more than a decade ago, it discourages the development of new pest-resistant crops and prolongs and increases the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, limits the use of the technology mainly to larger developers who can pay the inflated regulatory costs, and handicaps the U.S. in competition for international markets.
FORBES: Wrongheaded regulation will prolong the recession.
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This approach, which has been repeatedly condemned by the scientific community, has discouraged the development of new pest-resistant crops, encouraged greater use of synthetic chemical pesticides, and limited the use of the newest genetic engineering technology mainly to larger developers who can pay the inflated regulatory costs.
FORBES: EPA Biotech Regulation Bucks The Scientific Consensus
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The likely impact includes forest conversion to agricultural land, a drop in biological diversity as a result of monocropping and the massive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, unsustainable levels of water abstraction and a greater risk of water-related conflicts with local communities and neighbouring States sharing the same transboundary river systems.
UNESCO: Madiodio Niasse on the risks associated with large-scale foreign land aquisitions | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization