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Originally Posted by Azure
As for Monsanto, I find it a bit strange that people are giving them a free pass.
The amazing Roundup Ready is causing the same problem that the blanket use of antibiotics in the livestock industry is causing. Resistant forms of weeds, or as farmers will call them, superweeds. This is a major problem, especially with GMO crops like Canola, where as soon as they finish off one bug with the new and improved pesticide, a new superbug comes along, which costs the farmer even more to spray. Of course, Monsanto doesn't care. 11 billion reasons not to care.
Where will it end? Who the heck knows. But it isn't sustainable at all.
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This is partly true. There are some weeds that have become resistant to glyphosate. However, there are about a dozen different manufacturers in the world of which Monsanto is one. Hard to blame just them. GM crops are a part of the problem, the weed resistance is more from the overuse of glyphosate. Farmers will spray their land up to 3 times a year with glyphosate. In crop use for weed control is once. The fact that glyphosate has been so cheap over the past few years has sped up this problem. As glyphosate prices increase, you will start to see farmers change up the chemical they use which in turn will slow the resistance of glyphosate.