10. Sugar Beets
Like many other crops on our list, sugar beets have been genetically modified to be more resistant to herbicides, mainly Monsanto’s Roundup and to increase sugar amounts that can be produced from them. Some 50 percent of all sugar produced in the United States comes from sugar beets and a large portion of it is of GM variety. Not everybody is happy with this, so Hershey has replaced all beets’ sugar in their products with the one produced from sugar cane.
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