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No Quick Fixes to Overpower Nature
Weeds adapt to
Dow’s high-tech
chemicals
by
J im H ightower
Rather than find ways
to cooperate with the
natural world, America's
agribusiness giants reach
for the next quick fix in a
futile effort to overpower
nature. Their attitude is that if brute force
isn't working, they're probably not using
enough of it.
Monsanto, for example, has banked a
fortune by selling a com seed that it geneti
cally manipulated to produce com plants
that won't die when sprayed with the
ÿlnrllailb ©hserber
Roundup toxic weedkiller. Not coinciden under the "Enlist" brand name. Use this
tally, Monsanto also happens to manufac stuff, he says, and nature will be defeated.
ture Roundup. It profits from the seed and
W rong. N ature doesn't quit. The weeds
from the huge jum p in Roundup sales that will keep evolving and will adapt to Dow's
the seed generates. Slick.
high-tech fix, too. By pushing the same
But M other Nature, dam it, has rebelled. old thing relentlessly, says an indepen
So much of M onsanto's poison was spread dent crop scientist, agribusiness interests
in the past decade that weeds naturally "ratchet up [Am erica's] dependence on
began to resist it. As a Dow Chemical the use o f herbicides, which is very much
agronomist explained, "The real need here a treadm ill."
is to diversify our weed management sys
It's time to start listening to the weeds —
tems."
and cooperating with Mother Nature. To
Exactly right! We need non-chemical, advance this common sense approach, a
sustainable systems that work with nature national coalition is backing a California
and without genetically altered crops.
"Right to Know" initiative requiring the
But, no, the Dow man didn't mean that at labeling of genetically altered foods. To
all. He was calling for more brute force in help, go to the Organic Consumers Asso
the form of Dow's new genetically altered ciation at OrganicConsumers.org.
com seed that can absorb Dow's super-
Jim Hightower is a radio commenta
potent 2,4-D weedkiller, which it markets tor, writer, and public speaker.
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