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GM Crops Create Herbicide-resistant "Superweed"

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the still-no-chronic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article GM crops under test in the UK have cross pollinated to weeds, giving them the same resistance to herbicide as the GM crops. The article also mentions that this has been reported as occurring in Canada, which like the US is well past the test stage and allows widespread use of GM crops. What's worse, in Canada crop rotation has conferred multi-herbicide resistance to some of the weeds!"

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  1. Sounds good to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Paraquat-resistant marijuana sounds extra yummy.

  2. Re:we told you so! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You missed the point of that post, eh? Are you a NeoCon, by any chance? Though poorly written, the GP's analogy is clear to me.