Everything You Wish You Didn’t Have to Know About Monsanto

(Before It's News)

The feds see no evil as a belligerent strongman seeks control of America’s food supply

When you’re good at something, you want to leverage that. But that wasn’t enough. Corporations wanted more control, and they got it with a dramatic, landmark Weeds and insects are fighting back with their own law: that of natural selection. Last year, 49 percent of surveyed farmers reported Roundup-resistant weeds on their farms, up from 34 percent the year before. The problem costs farmers more than $1 billion annually.

Pests like Roundup-resistant pigweed can grow as thick as your arm and more than six feet high, requiring removal by hand. Many farmers simply abandon weed-choked fields.

In order to kill the pests, chemical giants like Monsanto and Dow are developing crops capable of withstanding even harsher pesticides, resulting in an endless cycle of greater pesticide use at commensurate financial and environmental cost.

Nature, as it’s proved so often before, will not be easily vanquished.

“We are not making our agriculture more resistant to environmental stress, not lowering the amount of pesticides, and not creating a sustainable agricultural system that works,” says Village Voice

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