Thank you for the informative article Sam. I completely agree with your characterization of glyphosate and round-up ready products. But the article does not do justice to GMOs by clubbing all other kinds of GMOs to the herbicide tolerant variety, even though it is a major chunk as you point out.
I still see a lot of promise from GMOs that are drought tolerant, or hypersalinity tolerant etc. that are still under research and the article's title could be changed just a little bit to keep these separate from the main villain of GMOs
The theme is the same: The immediate and longterm consequences of our failure to abide by Laws of Nature will forever find us scrambling to fix our folly. Work with, not against, what Nature provides. We are still, and, remarkably continually, trying to be bigger than Nature, a system that we evolved out of. That should tell you everything.
Thanks for the writing, Sam. I think this issue is a hot-debate. One issue, it is important to qualify which types of herbicide that's decreased and increase, in particular the toxicity loads. No-doubt that glyphosate use has jumped really high since, but that is in replacement to metolachlor, metribuzin, etc which are a lot higher in toxicity scale. I agree however that glyphosate-resistant weeds is a no-small problem, and which cause atrazine use to stay high. Juxtaposing a Comparative Toxicity Unit equivalent might be useful. These writings is helpful reference https://www.crediblehulk.org/index.php/2015/06/02/about-those-more-caustic-herbicides-that-glyphosate-helped-replace-by-credible-hulk/
Thank you for the informative article Sam. I completely agree with your characterization of glyphosate and round-up ready products. But the article does not do justice to GMOs by clubbing all other kinds of GMOs to the herbicide tolerant variety, even though it is a major chunk as you point out.
I still see a lot of promise from GMOs that are drought tolerant, or hypersalinity tolerant etc. that are still under research and the article's title could be changed just a little bit to keep these separate from the main villain of GMOs
What do you think?
The theme is the same: The immediate and longterm consequences of our failure to abide by Laws of Nature will forever find us scrambling to fix our folly. Work with, not against, what Nature provides. We are still, and, remarkably continually, trying to be bigger than Nature, a system that we evolved out of. That should tell you everything.
Thanks for the writing, Sam. I think this issue is a hot-debate. One issue, it is important to qualify which types of herbicide that's decreased and increase, in particular the toxicity loads. No-doubt that glyphosate use has jumped really high since, but that is in replacement to metolachlor, metribuzin, etc which are a lot higher in toxicity scale. I agree however that glyphosate-resistant weeds is a no-small problem, and which cause atrazine use to stay high. Juxtaposing a Comparative Toxicity Unit equivalent might be useful. These writings is helpful reference https://www.crediblehulk.org/index.php/2015/06/02/about-those-more-caustic-herbicides-that-glyphosate-helped-replace-by-credible-hulk/
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14865