GMOs: Why Weeds and Insects Became Harder to Kill | Part 2 | SLICE EARTH
GMO farming faces a biological challenge: insects can evolve resistance to Bt crops, while weeds can survive herbicides such as glyphosate. As resistant populations spread, farmers describe returning to soil insecticides, increasing glyphosate rates, and combining multiple herbicide modes of action to maintain control.
The excerpt places this problem within the wider GMO controversy, from the Asilomar debates to the backlash of the 1990s, before turning to Argentina. In Córdoba, aerial spraying around GM soy fields becomes a public-health and legal issue, where Sofia Gatica’s campaign helped bring attention to illnesses reported in her neighborhood and to the risks communities associated with agrochemical exposure.
Documentary: OGM: Lies and Truth
Director: Frédéric Castaignède
Production: ARTE France & La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (2016)
#gmo #herbicideresistance #btcorn #glyphosate #roundupready #superweeds #geneticengineering #argentina #cordoba #pesticides
The excerpt places this problem within the wider GMO controversy, from the Asilomar debates to the backlash of the 1990s, before turning to Argentina. In Córdoba, aerial spraying around GM soy fields becomes a public-health and legal issue, where Sofia Gatica’s campaign helped bring attention to illnesses reported in her neighborhood and to the risks communities associated with agrochemical exposure.
Documentary: OGM: Lies and Truth
Director: Frédéric Castaignède
Production: ARTE France & La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (2016)
#gmo #herbicideresistance #btcorn #glyphosate #roundupready #superweeds #geneticengineering #argentina #cordoba #pesticides
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