Monsanto’s Roundup Creates Resistant ‘Super-Weeds’, Devastates Farmers

August 1st, 2011 - Jill Ettinger

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Claims by biotech giant Monsanto that its glyphosate-based pesticide, Roundup, can improve crop yields and lessen the strain of fighting weeds for farmers may now be a liability after a recent study published in the current issue of Weed Science finds that a number of weed species are showing resistance to Roundup.

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