Buy GM food - get superweeds...

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  1. Recusant

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    This story doesn't directly discuss GM foods, but one of the biggest GM foods is "Roundup Ready" crops. These crops allow the use of yet more of the polluting herbicide to control weeds but not affect the cash crop. The resulting problem was always obvious, but still we push ahead with ever more use of these poisons to control the weeds.

    http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20120103-23174.html
    The Australian government won't help us figure out what has GM ingredients, with no regulation concerning labelling. This is a problem with free-market, informed consumer ideology and it kinda sux.
     

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