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By: Dr. Mercola
Date: 19 August 2014
More Pesticides Coming to Our Food
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Story at-a-glance
- The excessive use of chemicals on genetically modified (GM) crops by farmers has led to resistance, both in weeds and pests, leaving farmers to struggle with an increasingly difficult situation
- More than two dozen weed species are now resistant to glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto's broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup
- In a draft "environmental impact statement" (EIS), the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has recommended that Monsanto’s new GM cotton and soybean plants should be approved
- The so-called "Roundup Ready Xtend” crops are resistant to both glyphosate and the herbicide dicamba; APHIS is also leaning toward approving Dow AgroSciences’ GM “Enlist” corn and soybeans, which are resistant to glyphosate and the Agent Orange ingredient 2,4-D
- Rapidly increasing weed resistance is driving up the volume of herbicide needed by about 25 percent annually; the new approvals could drive it up by another 50 percent, according to one estimate
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