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Bummer. Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the bunker, we find out our favorite soil sterilizer is metastasizing into AO. This just in from Law Bob Squarepants on a great Jamie Reno article.
Perhaps they should do some PR and label this a “tactical herbicide” rather than get all that unwanted media attention. Wait a minute. What media attention?
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That first picture, in Italy, makes the skin crawl. Are hydroponic-grown veggies any safer?
Bread cereals, just about anything that we eat that contains grains are now genetically engineered to resist these herbicides. That means they will increase the amount of these herbicides to kill the “superweeds” that have adapted and become more tolerant to herbicides such as glyphosate. In addition the grain seeds are also genetically engineered with pesticides. These systemic pesticides and herbicides are killing off the bee populations and causing “Colony Collapse Syndrome”. Bayer and Monsanto are finding ways to use more of their products which increases the cost of food production.
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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Legal_cases
“As of 2010, in the United States 7 to 10 million acres (40,000 km2) of soil was afflicted by those superweeds, or about 5% of the 170 million acres planted with corn, soybeans and cotton, the crops most affected, in 22 states.[110] In 2006, farmers associations were reporting 103 biotypes of weeds within 63 weed species with herbicide resistance.[111] In 2009, Canada identified its first resistant weed, giant ragweed, and at that time fifteen weed species had been confirmed as resistant to glyphosate.[105][112]
In response, farmers are hand-weeding, using tractors to turn over soil between crops, and using other herbicides in addition to glyphosate. Agricultural biotech companies are also developing genetically engineered crops resistant to other herbicides. “Bayer is already selling cotton and soybeans resistant to glufosinate, another weedkiller. Monsanto’s newest corn is tolerant of both glyphosate and glufosinate, and the company is developing crops resistant to dicamba, an older pesticide. Syngenta is developing soybeans tolerant of its Callisto product. And Dow Chemical is developing corn and soybeans resistant to 2,4-D, a component of Agent Orange, the defoliant used in the Vietnam War.”
Monsanto also produces seeds which grow into plants genetically engineered to be tolerant to glyphosate, which are known as Roundup Ready crops. The genes contained in these seeds are patented. Such crops allow farmers to use glyphosate as a post-emergence herbicide against most broadleaf and cereal weeds. Soy was the first Roundup Ready crop, and was produced at Monsanto’s Agracetus Campus located in Middleton, Wisconsin.
Legal cases
a) False advertising
The New York Times reported that in 1996, “Dennis C. Vacco, the Attorney General of New York, ordered the company to pull ads that said Roundup was “safer than table salt” and “practically nontoxic” to mammals, birds and fish. The company withdrew the spots, but also said that the phrase in question was permissible under E.P.A. guidelines.”[126]
On Fri Jan 20, 2007, Monsanto was convicted in France of false advertising of Roundup for presenting it as biodegradable, and claiming it left the soil clean after use. Environmental and consumer rights campaigners brought the case in 2001 on the basis that glyphosate, Roundup’s main ingredient, is classed as “dangerous for the environment” and “toxic for aquatic organisms” by the European Union.[127] Monsanto appealed and the court upheld the verdict; Monsanto appealed again to the French Supreme Court, and in 2009 it also upheld the verdict.[128]
b) Scientific fraud
On two occasions, the United States EPA has caught scientists deliberately falsifying test results at research laboratories hired by Monsanto to study glyphosate.[129] The first incident involved Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT). The United States Justice Department closed the laboratory in 1978, and its leadership was found guilty in 1983 of charges of falsifying statements, falsifying scientific data submitted to the government, and mail fraud.In 1991, Don Craven, the owner of Craven Laboratories and three employees were indicted on 20 felony counts. Craven, along with fourteen employees were found guilty of similar crimes.
Monsanto has stated the Craven Labs investigation was started by the EPA after a pesticide industry task force discovered irregularities, that the studies have been repeated, and that Roundup’s EPA certification does not now use any studies from Craven Labs or IBT.
c)Trade dumping allegations
United States companies have cited trade issues with glyphosate being dumped into the western world market areas by Chinese companies and a formal dispute was filed in 2010.”
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There is more good stuff on wikipedia to read. I just posted what I found to be interesting.