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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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2. Round-Up Ready crops were sold as a way to use LESS 2,4-D!

Reply to groovedaddy (Original post)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 01:17 PM

Apr 2012

Farmers have used 2,4-D as a pre-planting treatment of their fields for decades, and we all know the shit is really, really bad for the environment and people. Round-Up is much less toxic to living species and breaks down faster, so it was promoted as a way to use less 2,4-D.

Now they want to go back to using MORE 2,4-D? Son of a bitch.

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Dow Corn, Resistant to a Weed Killer, Runs Into Opposition [View all] groovedaddy Apr 2012 OP

Glyphosate herbicides are no longer effective on many weeds around here tularetom Apr 2012 #1

Round-Up Ready crops were sold as a way to use LESS 2,4-D! NickB79 Apr 2012 #2

In other news... Javaman Apr 2012 #3