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Source on it being disasyetous for the environment and humans?
Meat farming is likely SIGNIFICANTLY worse for the environment and even that is not disasterous by itself outside of local biomes (though it is one of the easiest things to reduce besides green electricity)
Funny enough, part of the reason meat farming is so harmful is because so much land is used to grow feed for cattle (that's why huge chunks of the Amazon are regularly burned down illegally- to use that land to grow cattle feed). The pesticides and herbicides and artificial fertilizer are also pretty bad for their local environments. None of that is specific to GMO crops though.
Maybe it's not all bad, but there is no doubt that the main function of GMO is to resist herbicides, it seems logical to me, that using more, and more powerful herbicides is probably harmful to the environment. Also it is most likely same herbicides are harmful to the food chain that eat the resulting products, humans included. Which is why they are banned in EU.
2 seconds of Googling would have given you for example this article https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/ but there are plenty more.
Fun fact: I learned about this stuff in University in the 90s already, where professors were big fans (of and too often working for) companies like Monsanto and Bayer and even then knew about the risks of the system.
2 more seconds of googling gives you numerous scientific american articles that are actually relevant to the GMO issue.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stop-arguing-over-gmo-crops/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-oppose-gmos-even-though-science-says-they-are-safe/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetically-engineered-crops-are-safe-and-possibly-good-for-climate-change/
(I'll admit I didn't read all these due to a email register wall.) Regardless, the science is pretty much settled that GMOs are not inherently unsafe.
Your argument that GMOs are bad because GMO corn dominates the food system is dumb. It'd be like someone saying "Corn is grown almost exclusively by farmers, therefore: farmers bad."