Monsanto Just Made a Massive Mistake
One of its weed killers seems to be wiping out valuable crops, too. Oops.
TOM PHILPOTTAUG. 17, 2016 4:22 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/environme...istake-dicamba
Monsanto's damage to our food supply due to illegal use of their dicamba herbicide is mounting. Why? Monsanto started selling GMO seeds engineered to tolerate both glyphosate and dicamba, before regulators approved the new glyphosate/dicamba formulation. So the chemical farmers are buying the seeds and using current, highly volatile dicamba formulations illegally, and killing off neighbor's crops because of pesticide drift. Complaints of drooping and often dead crops appeared in no fewer than 10 states, the EPA reports. In Missouri alone, the agency says it has gotten 117 complaints "alleging misuse of pesticide products containing dicamba," affecting more than 42,000 acres of crops, including peaches, tomatoes, cantaloupes, watermelons, rice, peas, peanuts, alfalfa, cotton, and soybeans. The state's largest peach farm, which lies near soybean-and-cotton country, has suffered massive and potentially permanent damage this year. So are Monsanto or the chemical-addicted farmers paying for all of this damage? Of course not, as usual. They pollute, someone else pays.
#PesticideDrift #GMOPollution #dicamba #CropDamage #GMO #food #BoycottGMOs #BanGMOs #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa
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