Pesticide-use has bred pesticide-resistant superweeds that are threatening our agriculture. Yikes!

"It is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen." -Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts, on Round-Up resistant superweeds.

U.S. Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds

“The biotech industry is taking us into a more pesticide-dependent agriculture when they’ve always promised, and we need to be going in, the opposite direction,” said Bill Freese, a science policy analyst for the Center for Food Safety in Washington.

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Monsanto, which once argued that resistance would not become a major problem, now cautions against exaggerating its impact. “It’s a serious issue, but it’s manageable,” said Rick Cole, who manages weed resistance issues in the United States for the company. Of course, Monsanto stands to lose a lot of business if farmers use less Roundup and Roundup Ready seeds. “You’re having to add another product with the Roundup to kill your weeds,” said Steve Doster, a corn and soybean farmer in Barnum, Iowa. “So then why are we buying the Roundup Ready product?”

via underpaidgenius.com

OH, MONSANTO, won't you ever learn?!?!

COUGHthecorporationCOUGH

Maybe it's the American people who need to learn not to trust megacorporations when they tell us chemicals aren't bad...

Please hit up the underpaidgenius link above to read more about this.

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