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Pesticide Use Ramping Up As GMO Crop Technology Backfires, Study Claims

Reuters | Carey Gillam | Posted 12.02.2012 | Green
Read More: Gmo Pesticides, Video, Gmo Crops, Gmo Food, Genetically Modified Crops Pesticides, Environment, US Farmers, Gmo Superweeds, Superweeds, Gmo Herbicides, US Farmers Pesticides, Genetically Modified Farming, Monsanto, Green News

By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption o...

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"Agent Orange" Corn: Biotech Only Winner in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 04.23.2012 | Home
Read More: Gmos, 2, Genetically Engineered Foods, Genetically Modified Food, 4d, Agent Orange, Superweeds, Center for Food Safety, Home News
Andrew Kimbrell

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn variety that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange.

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'Green News Report' - September 22, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.22.2011 | Green
Read More: Cap and Trade, Fracking, Gasland, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Bill Clinton, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Protests, Green News, Sustainability, Heatwave, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Russia, House of Representatives, Lisa Jackson, House Energy Committee, Factory Farms, Superweeds, Coal, Rick Perry, Monsanto, Chernobyl, Antibiotic Resistance, Tar Sands, Drought, Oil Spill, Africa, Superbugs, San Francisco, Bpa, Elijah Cummings, Gmos, Poverty, Darrell Issa, Subsidies, BP Oil Spill, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S VERY SCARY RADIO REPORT...

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Farmers May Return To Harsh Herbicides, Chemicals To Battle Roundup Resistant Weeds

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Weeds, Roundup, Cotton, Agriculture, Herbicides, Superweeds, Monsanto, Agent Orange, 2 4-D, Dicamba, Runoff, Conventional Farming, Resistant, Wildlife, Green News

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the weed killer Roundup was introduced in the 1970s, it proved it could kill nearly any plant while still being safer tha...

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