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As we have covered extensively in recent months<\/a>, Monsanto’s herbicide Glysophate, the primary ingredient in their top-selling product “RoundUp” has been proven to cause cancer. Now, according to new reports, the chemical doesn’t even work<\/a> and is creating a new resistance in weeds that make them more resiliant and more difficult to get rid of.<\/p>\n

Nebraska farmer <\/a>Mike Pietzyk recently discussed how the weeds are becoming resistant to RoundUp in a recent interview with Chemicals And Engineers News.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe days of going out and spraying RoundUp twice a year\u2014those are long gone,<\/em>” he said, adding that he was forced to use a cocktail of different chemicals, some of which are even more dangerous than RoundUp. Pietzyk and other farmers are now seeking new solutions to avoid the harsh pesticides used in conventional farming.<\/p>\n

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“People in urban areas and towns need to understand\u2014we live here, we drink the water under the ground out here,\u201d he says. \u201cWe want to be good stewards of what we\u2019ve been entrusted with,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

According to U.S. weed scientist Dallas Peterson, one type of weed, in particular, called Palmer amaranth, has become especially resistant to pesticides and is overgrowing farms across the country.<\/p>\n

Complaints of herbicide-resistant weeds have become so common that the House Agriculture Committee has scheduled a meeting on December 4th to specifically address the situation.<\/p>\n

Roundup, formulated to be used on GMO<\/a> or \u201cRoundup Ready\u201d crops engineered to be resistant to it, is the most widely used herbicide in the world. It was originally introduced in the 1970s to control weeds and then took off when the planting of GMO crops skyrocketed in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n

According to a U.S. Geological Survey<\/a> (USGS), glyphosate use in the U.S. increased from about 20 million pounds in 1992 to 110 million pounds in 2002 to more than 280 million pounds in 2012.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> released earlier this year, the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that glyphosate, the main ingredient in RoundUp, is \u201cprobably carcinogenic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Vibes<\/a> writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.<\/p>\n

This article (Monsanto’s Cancer Causing Herbicide Doesn’t Even Work, Actually Makes Weeds Stronger<\/a>) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a <\/em>Creative Commons<\/em><\/a> license with attribution to the author and <\/em>TrueActivist.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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