Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away Ingredients

Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by gregd on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @10:00AM (#9452366)

Roundup resistance has led to greater use of herbicides, with troubling implications for biodiversity, sustainability, and human health http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-...

Herbicide-resistant crop technology has led to a 239 million kilogram (527 million pound) increase in herbicide use in the United States between 1996 and 2011 http://www.enveurope.com/content/24/1/24

But a new study released by Food & Water Watch yesterday finds the goal of reduced chemical use has not panned out as planned. http://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/07/02/gmo-crops...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/genetically-engineered-crops-mo...

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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @10:04AM (#9452395)

Your links clearly state that the increase in herbicide use is due to the fact that weeds are becoming resistant to the herbicides in common use. That herbicide is glyphosate because of the wide use of glyphosate on Roundup-ready crops.

The same thing is happening to other herbicides, just slower, because they weren't used as much. They weren't used as much because they were replaced with glyphosate.

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