GM Crops Create Herbicide-resistant "Superweed"

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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Re:This has nothing to do with genetic modificatio

[komodotoes]

While I agree with you that maybe this has very little to do with the actual GM process, I have to point out that GM foods aren't feeding the poor as much as they feed the pocketbooks of a few large corporations. In fact, it is becoming widespread practice in the world to force farmers to buy sterile seed from companies like Monsanto, forcing farmers to spend their profits buying GM seed and making it illegal for farmers to keep their own seeds.

Even worse, Monsanto has successfully sued farmers in Canada for growing their GM crops, even when the farmer didn't buy the seed illegally, plant the seed, or know the seed was on his property. The GM seed blew there (he lived a few kms down the road from their test farm), and before you can say frivolus lawsuit Monsanto is demanding damages, which they got. In Iraq as well, one of the first things that was passed by the Coalition interim government was a resolution making it mandatory for farmers to buy sterile seeds. In Europe there is talk of this too, although I don't know how far that has gotten.

So althought this was probably natural selection, I am against GM crops because they really haven't been a benefit to the world as far as I can see, and are misused by companies by Monsanto to milk a profit from those people starving in the world, either directly or indirectly by signing deals with the corrupt governments you mention.