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Take off your blinders
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 30 2013 @ 04:46 PM EDT
Monsanto started to develop RR breeds so that Roundup could be used without worrying about the crops. But you surely know that glyphosate isn't covered by patents since 2000, so it's not Monsanto's main business anymore. Monsanto wants to sell the seeds.

Yes. But they don't want anyone else to sell the seeds.

And anyway, glyphosate is way better than other kinds of herbicides for the environment. You actually should be happy about it.

Completely wrong. The extensive use of glyphosate is resulting in weeds that are resistant to it. It is also poisoning the soil, and resulting in problems with the balance of bacteria in the soil.

And even if you're completely right about everything, that *still* doesn't allow you to think that GMOs are "poison" per se.

We can think whatever we want dude. Obviously, you think there is abolutely no problem. But the odds are really really strong that you are wrong.

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yours is only half the story
Authored by: complex_number on Thursday, May 30 2013 @ 05:19 PM EDT
Repeated spraying with herbicides has a very worrying side effect that a lot of
people are oblivious too.

This is the indiscriminate eradicatino of plants that are required by some of
the very living organisms that the plants the need the herbicide also need later
on thin their life cycle to reproduce etc.
So you kill a plant that is home to an insect in one part of its lifecycle. Thus
the numbers of those insects are drastically reduced so that when the food crop
needs those insects they aren't there.
Pah.

I have some mint in my garden that is so far totally resistant to 'roundup'. It
has had three sprayings. Mint spreads uncontrollably and I'm trying to control
it. So far one a few shoots have died. Not I have given up on the spraying and
I'm trying to dig it up before it takes over the whole garden.
another plant that seems totally resistant to RoundUp is 'mares tail'(Equisetum
Arvense). I am sure there are many more.
In my part of the world (40 miles SW of London, UK), Mares Tail is everywhere.
What use is RoundUp to farmers then?



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