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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
FOOD—ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS: MONSANTO’S GROWING TROUBLES…HERBICIDES NO LONGER WORKING WITH THEIR “ROUND UP READY” GMO SEED
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Monsanto’s going down!
Monsanto’s humiliations are all over the news these days. Last week we heard that Monsanto is actually paying farmers to spray their fields with competitors’ weedkillers. Monsanto’s latest press release announces it is offering RoundupReady cotton farmers up to $20/acre to pour on extra herbicides. In fact, as The Organic Center’s 2009 report detailed, this bizarre practice—a reversal of Monsanto’s traditional exhortations to rely on its own chemical Roundup—has actually been going on for over a year now, a response to the Monsanto-induced epidemic of superweeds now ravaging the country. It’s a desperate last-hour attempt by the giant seed and pesticide company to slow the wildfire spread of noxious weeds resistant to Roundup, an epidemic which essentially spells the demise of Monsanto’s entire RoundupReady “system of weed management.” Other last-ditch efforts by Monsanto to keep revenue coming in include genetically engineering its Roundup Ready seeds for “enhanced resistance,” that is the ability to withstand—at least temporarily—even heavier dousings of Roundup.
this is big people
It’s about damn time. I’m just not sure how they didn’t see it coming … it’s not like the superbugs in hospitals recently have been kept hushed up … it’s the same principle. Hit things with poison, and all but the strongest will die. Those strongest will pass their genes on, eventually creating superbugs/superweeds. It’s unnatural selection at its finest, and hopefully Monsanto will pay the full price, the bunch of world-destroying lunatics.
