Food from the lab

Farmers Who Plant Biotech Crops Grow Pesticide-Resistant Weeds

Weeds are developing resistance to the herbicide that genetically engineered crops are designed to tolerate, finds the first major assessment of how biotech crops are affecting all U.S. farmers, released today by the National Research Council.

Since genetically engineered crops were introduced in 1996, at least nine species of weeds in the United States have evolved resistance to glyphosate, a main component in Roundup and other commercial weed killers, according to the report.

The weeds have become resistant to glyphosate largely because of repeated exposure, the assessment found.

Did you ever think what it is doing to you when you eat that crop? If it is changing weeds, what is it doing to your liver, kidney...?