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2008-11-24 | permalink
Monsanto beets down opposition to GE sugar beets
Kevin Golden, staff attorney for the Center for Food Safety, says the unknown long-term environmental risks of genetically modified crops outweigh short-term benefits. ”We admit Roundup is a less toxic alternative than a lot of the herbicides, but weed resistance is developing really fast,” Golden says. ”Eventually, Roundup becomes obsolete and farmers have to use these really nasty herbicides. It’s a self-defeating prophecy to use this as a silver bullet.”
- In These Times, USA: Monsanto beets down opposition
- The Bulletin, USA: Crop offers a seed of possibility
- AG Weekly, USA: Roundup sugar beets prove worth
- The Gazette, USA: Bumper beet crop has farmers seeing green
- San Francisco Chronicle, USA: Legal tussle over modified sugar beets
- Northern Colorado Business Report, USA: First harvest of genetically modified beets to market
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2008-11-24 | permalink
Monsanto beets down opposition to GE sugar beets
Kevin Golden, staff attorney for the Center for Food Safety, says the unknown long-term environmental risks of genetically modified crops outweigh short-term benefits. ”We admit Roundup is a less toxic alternative than a lot of the herbicides, but weed resistance is developing really fast,” Golden says. ”Eventually, Roundup becomes obsolete and farmers have to use these really nasty herbicides. It’s a self-defeating prophecy to use this as a silver bullet.”
- In These Times, USA: Monsanto beets down opposition
- The Bulletin, USA: Crop offers a seed of possibility
- AG Weekly, USA: Roundup sugar beets prove worth
- The Gazette, USA: Bumper beet crop has farmers seeing green
- San Francisco Chronicle, USA: Legal tussle over modified sugar beets
- Northern Colorado Business Report, USA: First harvest of genetically modified beets to market
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