Sun, 23 May 2004

Resistant Weeds

I ran across the International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds) while surfing today: it's funded by HRAC (the Herbicide Resistance Action Committee). I honestly had no idea that there were such organizations, or that the agrichemical industry is beginning to recognize the problems they've created.

We are doing the same thing to our cereal and other crops that we are doing to livestock: by applying massive amounts of chemicals we are breeding in resistance. Evolution not only works despite us, but sometimes because of us, as well.

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