A New Monsanto Growth Initiative Sprouts Up

Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) makes people nervous when they read stories like this, where we apparently have no say in the matter.

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Bruce

"Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency, you can now eat more of Monsanto's herbicide Roundup in your food.
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Roundup remains the largest crop protection brand globally, and because it genetically modifies seeds to survive an application of the herbicide, Monsanto has oriented the focus of its crop protection business to support Roundup Ready crops sold to farmers. Buy seeds that can withstand Roundup, sell more Roundup to spray on crops.

A byproduct of this symbiotic relationship, though, is the creation of superweeds, weeds that have developed a tolerance to the herbicide and are spreading across farmland, impervious to man and machine. Because farmers who grow GM crops typically use 25% more herbicide, not less, than those who grow traditional seeds, the weeds are developing a thirst for it.

Yet it's not just weeds that are growing resistant. Bugs, too, have become immune to the chemicals. Monsanto's GM corn, for example, was molecularly modified to kill pests like rootworm, but they're making a comeback even as GM corn accounts for 86% of the country's supply. Now we've got superinsects, too!
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While Monsanto, of course, says ingesting such amounts of its herbicides is safe, an MIT study published earlier this year found it causes "insidious" damage at the cellular level and leads to increased risk of gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, autism, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease."