Monsanto's Herbicide Linked to Fatal Kidney Disease Epidemic: Could It Topple Monsanto?

[KurtNYC]

33. Syngenta, Dow, DuPont, Bayer

are all in the business of selling chemicals -- Sick GMO plants nursed along with chemicals.

Glyphosate chelates nutrients and can ruin your soil outright. 30% of American farmland is expected to be out of production within 10 years so how does that fit into your "must use GMO to feed everyone" scenario?

Btw, your fact is not true -- the yield from GMO crops is no higher than conventional, and in some cases is lower. In many places it is lower and more expensive. The majority of food grown in the US is going into ethanol and animal feed so there is a lot of capacity that could be directed toward feeding human beings but isn't. That should be obvious to everyone -- we are feeding cars and cows with 80% of our cropland so we could feed more people is we really needed to. Cut the crap.

But in its report, the ERS researchers said over the first 15 years of commercial use, GMO seeds have not been shown to definitively increase yield potentials, and "in fact, the yields of herbicide-tolerant or insect-resistant seeds may be occasionally lower than the yields of conventional varieties," the ERS report states.
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And the over reliance on glyphosate has translated to an increase in weed resistance, which makes crop production much harder.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/24/usda-gmo-report-idUSL1N0LT16M20140224

Also glyphosate resistant amarantha, a by-product of glyphosate use, are now "choking" Iowa:

Here's how: Even a moderate infestation of Palmer amaranth can rob farmers of about two-thirds of their corn and soybean yields, experts say.
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Nearly 20 weeds in Iowa have developed resistance to herbicides that include glyphosate, a once-in-a-century chemical that Monsanto brought to the market in 1976 under the name Roundup. It killed a broad range of weeds.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2014/06/22/superweeds-choke-farms/11231231/

I'm a farmer and marketing talking points aren't going to solve these problems.