Comments on: Monsanto’s Roundup Spawns Superweeds Consuming Over 120 Million Hectares

By: AHS

AHS — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:16:06 +0000

This is a very short article, in my book anyway, I do not think it really needs sources cited-google is your friend….in some cases.

By: AHS

AHS — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:13:14 +0000

Oh, since when is the world being fed? I will have to search the mainstream media-i’m sure it is there somewhere ;~)

By: biggerbrain

biggerbrain — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:34:20 +0000

Pesticides are for killing rats NOT weeds.

Roundup is a herbicide NOT pesticide.

How do you expect intelligent people to take you seriously when you cant even use the right words??

By: Riiik

Riiik — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:03:54 +0000

But here is the problem! Sustainable organic farming can not feed the world.

Does the current course lead to disaster? Probably yes.

Does changing course cause disaster? Definitely yes!!!

Take your pick.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:40:31 +0000

Hmmm.. yes very compelling…yawn

I wonder if you ever considered citing original resources.

By: man4earth

man4earth — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:33:34 +0000

Correction-Monsatan

By: man4earth

man4earth — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:31:42 +0000

Monsantan does not care.

By: Italics Mine

Italics Mine — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:39:54 +0000

Sorry, but we don’t have hectares here. We have good old fashioned acres.

By: sX

sX — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:54:25 +0000

I totally agree with this, it’s out of control and these people running “Monsanto” need to get it through their thick skulls. If there is no food, then what are the people running this backwards company going to eat? They are digging their own grave, as well as ours, and we have no say in it. They control the food, the water, and pump us full of meds. They being the government and all the money hungry fools running this platocracy.

By: T BAGG

T BAGG — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:34:18 +0000

OK- reminds me of how we have been over-prescribing antibiotics and now hospitals have super resistant strains of bacteria which are complicating surgeries and actually killing people. Monsanto is making the same mistake essentially. Nature has what is called recombinant DNA which allows strains of bacteria to share plasmids containing different selectable mutations which allows them to share antibiotic resistant strains with other colonies thereby ensuring their survival. Insects and plants do this at the genetic level. I suspect that these weeds and insects will multipy exponentially and create a famine of biblical proportions. If they do find a pesticide that will take them down, it will only be another few years before a new population sprouts up that is resistent to both the old and new Monsanto pesiticide. This is a battle that you cant win. Eventually you have to pack your pesticides so full of toxic substances that the food that is eaten by people will make them sick and pollution of the oceans and ground soil will become epidemic.

And this is how life works. All for increased yields and a nice little quarterly profit. We need to start thinking about the big picture, not quarterly Wall Street reports.