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. […]
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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 […] Researchers warn that agricultural weed management through herbicide-resistant crops is an unsustainable pathway that will worsen the massive problem of herbicide-resistant weeds in the country. […] An independent pilot study on glyphosate residues in GE herbicide-resistant soybeans grown in Argentina has found high levels with some samples exceeding permissible limits. […] |
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