Farmer to Farmer – 1 of 3 | The Truth About Transgenic Crops




















Cartoon courtesy of gmeducation

Farmers
describe failure of Roundup ready crops


TRANSGENIC CROPS
CONTAMINATE CONVENTIONAL SEED AND UNDERMINE PREMIUM NON-GMO MARKETS





Devon G.
Peña | Seattle, WA | April 3, 2014





In a recent comment submitted to the USDA/APHIS on my
opposition to the proposed co-existence policy, I describe how a growing number of GMO farmers actually
want off the stacked-traits transgenic treadmill.





In the coming days I will be posting a variety of
evidence of this phenomenon gleaned from video and audio clips and ethnographic
narratives from ongoing policy action research by a fairly diverse group of
colleagues associated with a nonGMO listserv.





Farmers are the best source for direct knowledge of
the experience of working with transgenic crops. Here is one of those GMO American farmers explaining why he wants to get off the treadmill and wishes for preferably non-GMO alternatives to the current desperate situation
farmers face across the globe. Monsanto’s technology is in deep
trouble.



Yet, this failed technology is affecting all farmers including those who produce for premium conventional and organic markets. In this report, a GMO sugar beet farmer explains the advent of herbicide-resistant superweeds hat have suddenly emerged to change this agroecosystem. In the meantime, Monsanto tells him to hire labor to weed the field while it banks on the patenting of the process for tank-mixing of the various chemicals for the next failed generation of techniques and applications:


Our weeds are becoming resistant to Roundup…so we’re
having to tank-mix other chemicals to control those problem weeds. We’ve just
relied too heavily on Roundup… and everyone has been using it on every crop and
the weeds are quickly adapting and becoming immune…So, here we are 25, you
know, years later…and we’ve got this problem, we don’t have any herbicides to
control some of these weeds and we relying on Roundup and everything is a mess… 


Thanks to Michael Hart and Pete Speller. Watch the Vimeo clip below or at this link.











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