GMO foods have a huge potential to make food cheaper to produce and more nutritious.
The most common GMO foods have at least one gene added to them that makes the plant resistant to pest. An herbicide makes the farmers bale to grow their crops with much less intensive labour and at the same time keep the plants healthy.
- Crops (e.g. BT corn, soy beans, potato, sugarcane) can be genetically modified to become herbicide-tolerant, drought-resistant, virus-resistant or insect-resistant, amongst other things. When farmers plant such GM crops, crop yield naturally increases due to the decreased susceptibility to natural elements and pests/ viruses,