Excessive Spraying /GE Crops Creating Massive Superweed

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Excessive Spraying of Monsanto's Herbicide Roundup on GE Crops Creating Massive Superweed Problems

Oct. 10, 2005

GM WATCH daily http://www.gmwatch.org
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Although this article - c/o Monsanto's home town rag - provides a great piece of industry-spin, it also points to the dire fix Monsanto is in. The main part of its GM seed sales - and related herbicide sales - are under growing threat.

"Roundup Ready traits account for the bulk of the $2.7 billion in seeds and traits Monsanto sold .

These sales could be threatened if the number of glyphosate-resistant weeds continues to multiply. Eight species globally - five in the United States - have been classified since 1996, according to a consortium of weed scientists."

But while the piece admits the rapidly escalating problem of weed resistance to glyphosate - the active ingreient in Monsanto's Roundup, and the potentially dire consequences for the company, it sticks the blame for the problem onto farmers. They, it seems, have been abusing Monsanto's crops.

Farmers are accused of irresponsibly planting Roundup Ready crops in the same fields year after year, thus endangering the viability of "one of the most effective, relatively safe and commonly used agricultural weedkillers".

There's no mention of the fact that exactly this kind of mindless junk-farming has been encouraged by the type of techno-fix Monsanto's been promoting, and nor does the article offer any explanation for how come Monsanto hasn't been actively printing warning labels, placing advertisements and inspiring articles warning farmers against this kind of abuse of the technology.
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complete article and links to original st. louis post dispatch article here.
 

[texpatriot2004]

1. Monsanto is EVIL they want to privatize our grain...aside from the

poisoning of the Earth that they do.

[Ron Green]

2. Oh, from the thread title I thought you were talking about strong dope.

:smoke:

[fasttense]

3. Great, this super weed will join up with the kudzu and takeover the South.

[texpatriot2004]

4. Together they would certainly win that Kudzoo is ugly and it's

everywhere down here.

[ohio_liberal]

5. They use Roundup in fields planted with crops?

:wtf:

I had no idea!

[elehhhhna]

7. "Roundup Ready' means r'up can't kill it--just kills everything else.

[nosmokes]

8. millions and millions of tons of it.

glyphosphate is being sprayed everywhere, even though there are continually new studies coming out stating that it does not break down like monsanto claims and there is a cumulative effect and it does linger in water, at long enough to cause harm to amphibian species. i just don't understand how people cannot get it through their head that if it's poison it's poison! if it kills a weed then it can't be good for the earth and it can't be fit to eat. it ain't rocket science.

[elehhhhna]

6. M'santo vs. Mother Nature. Who ya got?

I got MN. She ain't joking. Never does.