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Paying to find non-GE wild corn?
Moosh:] wrote:
On 17 Jul 2003 20:09:04 GMT, Brian Sandle wrote: "It gets worse. The selling point behind Roundup Ready is that it is a glyphosphate-resistant strain. Spray on the herbicide and you're left with nothing but Monsanto crops. However, after two years application, glyphosphate-resistant volunteer corn plants begin to flourish. This has led to the most bizarre Monsanto patent yet awarded. US patent # 6,239,072 covers the practice of mixing glyphosphate with other herbicides, and any premixture thereof. This patent has been awarded despite the fact that mixing herbicides is what any sensible, thinking farmer would naturally do, and has been doing, in the event of resistant plants emerging. The patent also serves as a "de facto" admission of the GM "superweed" problem and that Roundup technology lacks efficacy and predictability. " So, don't buy Monsanto products, if you don't like them. No-one's forcing anyone. And if you don't want to catch an illness, keep away from the source, if you know what it is. How far away is labelling of GM ingredients in corn chips, herrings in tomato sauce, chocolate &c &c? |
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