Roundup Ready wrecking havoc for farmers- told ya so
Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds
Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers’ near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds.
To fight them, Mr. Anderson and farmers throughout the East, Midwest and South are being forced to spray fields with more toxic herbicides, pull weeds by hand and return to more labor-intensive methods like regular plowing.
“We’re back to where we were 20 years ago,” said Mr. Anderson, who will plow about one-third of his 3,000 acres of soybean fields this spring, more than he has in years. “We’re trying to find out what works.”
Farm experts say that such efforts could lead to higher food prices, lower crop yields, rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water.
“It is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen,” said Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts. </em>
Wow, it wasn’t as if people who should know hadn’t been warning about just this sort of occurrence being the result of using Monsanto’s genetically-altering seed, did they?
Today, Roundup Ready crops account for about 90 percent of the soybeans and 70 percent of the corn and cotton grown in the United States.
We’re screwed. Sold our food system to a bunch of greed-obsessed mad scientists who unleash new genetic variations into the world, a situation that obviously no amount of lab testing could ever replicate. Shut ‘em down now.
