Yep, Roundup is bad stuff. But, Roundup is like candy when against products like Crossbow, Gordons or any of the 2-4D type poisons.
I played golf with an older fellow that ran kidney dialisis centers. Decades ago he covered 4 states by himself. These days they have multiple people covering one state. He did not know why. This article explains a lot toward that answer.
I agree with your sentiments, but not with the idea that a plant genetically designed to resist attack by a herbicide is then of itself a danger. Biological adaptation is just too proven for me to accept undetailed worry in this area. Rather -in this case - the use of the chemical to dry out grain prior to harvest is insane. It has to contaminate under those conditions.
We are splicing the DNA of a plant with something unnatural and mass marketing it. It may look and taste like corn to us, but who really knows what that does at the cellular level over multiple generations to consumers? Look at the explosions in obesity, autism, cancer, and food allergies, for example. I’m not implying causation but correlation is definitely there.
Wow. I had to read about BT corn and that is a freakshow isn't it? Gene splicing corn with other organisms, much less their toxic bits. My mind is blown by one writer saying there is a danger of all the corn seed being replaced by BT corn seed. That is going too fast.
There’s truth to that. If an insect or animal won’t touch something and we will, it should make you wonder. I always scoff at people who think nature/animals are beneath us.Last year I was looking at sweet corn in the grocery store and an old guy in coveralls came up and asked if I had found any ears with corn bores. I told him no. He told me not to buy any. He said that a corn borer can only live in corn and if they wouldn’t eat that corn he wouldn’t either.