Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops – The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-falls-short.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/30/business/gmo-crops-pesticides.html
About 20 years ago, the United States and Canada
began introducing genetic modifications in agriculture.
Europe did not embrace the technology, yet it achieved
increases in yield and decreases in pesticide use on a par
with, or even better than, the United States, where
genetically modified crops are widely grown.