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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Mexico's crops being contaminated.

[IAAP]

See here.

I'm trying to find the story I heard on NPR about biologists who found GM genes on mountain tops - far away from where the GM crops were planted. Yes, they thought is was impossible, but it's happening.

Re:This has nothing to do with genetic modificatio

[dada21]

Great freaking zork. You must be a lawyer: your declaration that nuclear power plants have no responsibility to ensure that they don't release radiation is monstrous prima facie. Your claim that corporations have every right in the world to dump toxic waste in your neighbor's backyard because somebody is willing to pay them to do so is about as indecent as I have ever seen on slashdot.

No, you just have spent zero time researching my opinions -- while I have spent years researching yours to find them false. I'm an anarchocapitalist and we have a solution about nuclear waste and toxic waste: if it enters my land, it is trespass, and the trespasser violated my property rights. Also, I can protect myself by not living near a toxic waste manufacturer or a nuclear power plant. I can buy enough property to protect myself that way, as well.

Monsanto is a cruel and ruthless beast: haven't you been paying attention to the world you claim to be traveling? They have no right to sue farmer B just because farmer A couldn't keep his pollen to himself.

You're right -- anyone who voting for the government that allowed them to sue in this way is responsible. Monsanto merely took advantage of the law that socialists so admire. I am against these laws 100% -- in my "perfect world" Monsanto was the violator as they trespassed on another person's land.

I want to pay somebody for a product that does nothing more than create laws to control you. Now sit down, shut up, and accept that whenever this provider appears you have no right to whine about it.

I don't believe in laws, as they are the use of force against an unwilling party. Your desire to create laws only ends up controlling you.

I can see that your emotion has taken you over. Once you understand what property rights are, you understand that you are the only one responsible for what you buy, what you ingest and what you allow on your land and in your body. I want that freedom, but as long as you continue to regulate corporations, you will continue to lose rights to them and the government. Complete deregulation will give you MORE choice for safer foods -- not less.

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[phriedom]

" What's not immediately clear from the story is how this happened."
Yep, you have to read the whole article and not just the first paragraph.