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Monsanto and the Roundup Ready Controversy

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''(Note: In addition to the issues raised on this page, there are a host of other concerns with genetic modification. Furthermore, the issues and statistics in the fast-paced biotech world are ever in flux. The reader is encouraged to visit the other websites [http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto:External_links#Archived_articles here] for more and up-to-date info.)''
[[Monsanto ]] is considered the Mother of agricultural biotechnology (1). Their "Roundup Ready" crops have been genetically engineered to permit direct, "over the top" application of the Monsanto herbicide glyphosate allowing farmers to drench both their crops and crop land with the herbicide so as to be able to kill nearby weeds (and any other green thing the herbicide touches) without killing the crops (2). "RR soybeans are heavily herbicide dependent" [http://www.mindfully.org/GE/RRS-Yield-Drag.htm]
[http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE2/RRS-Troubled-Benbrook.htm] says Charles M. Benbrook, an expert in the field [http://www.organic-center.org/about.staff.php?action=detail&bios_id=43].
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