An alarming 90% drop in Monarch butterfly numbers in North America is due to the loss of its only food, milkweed, which in turn is attributed to the widespread use of herbicides on GM crops in the U.S. […]
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A review of studies on GM herbicide-resistant crops by three European government agencies finds that instead of being the solution, these GM crops are part of the problem and that their continued use will result in biodiversity loss. […] There has been strong opposition to Dow AgroScience’s application for approval of its “Enlist Duo” GE crops made resistant to 2,4-D and glyphosate. […] A particularly robust herbicide-resistant weed called Palmer amaranth which has wreaked havoc on cotton farms in southern USA is spreading throughout the Midwest, threatening farm economies. […] 2,4-D-resistant GM crops may be soon approved in the U.S. despite opposition from public-interest groups including scientists and doctors, who have warned of serious risks of harm from the projected dramatic increase in the use of the herbicide. […] The Centre for Food Safety reviews Dow’s new GE crops resistant to 2,4-D herbicide and argues that these crops are an unsustainable approach which sacrifices human and ecosystem health for short-term profits. […] U.S. government agencies are in the final stages of approving a new herbicide-resistant crop system developed by Dow, resistant to both glyphosate and 2,4-D, despite health and environmental concerns. […] GM crops engineered to be resistant to herbicides pose a threat to the right to food. The herbicides used in conjunction with these crops also have health impacts that need to be evaluated in parallel. […] In a bid to address the problem of weeds resistant to glyphosate, the biotech industry is introducing crops genetically engineered to resist 2,4-D. This report details the risks and calls for a stop to the expansion of herbicide-resistant crops. […] The Union of Concerned Scientists declares that the spread of herbicide-resistant superweeds in the U.S. has reached epidemic proportions and that the real solution lies in the science of agroecology rather than in a new generation of GE herbicide-resista […] |
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