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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Natural weed control methods not just an option anymore
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:29:00 -0700


Natural weed and pest control methods not just an option anymore. Close
planting, mixed planting, mulch, rotation and cover crops work. Look at
chemical and GMO results. This is from
http://journeytoforever.org/fyi_previous2.html#0317 .

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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"Do Genetically Engineered Crops Reduce Pesticide Use? The Evidence Says
Not Likely". "Genetically-engineered (GE) crops cannot be depended on to
reduce pesticide use... Recent US data show that GE crops are not producing
such reductions. Farmers planting GE crops have often actually increased
their use of herbicides and insecticides." Acrobat file, 110kb
http://www.wwf.ca/satellite/prip/resources/GE%20&%20Pesticides.PDF

GE Crop Yields/Pesticide Use No Better -- Recent data from the US
Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service for the 1997 and 1998
growing season found that in most cases genetically engineered crops were
not getting any better yields than conventional crops, and farmers were
using about the same amount of pesticides on engineered crops as
conventional crops.
http://www.purefood.org/Organic/oca19.cfm#GE

Troubled Times Amid Commercial Success for Roundup Ready Soybeans -- A
report by consultant Charles M. Benbrook of the Northwest Science and
Environmental Policy Center in Idaho found that farmers are using more
herbicide than ever before, despite biotech industry claims to the
contrary. Using US Department of Agriculture data from 1998, Benbrook found
that farmers sprayed 11.4% more herbicide on herbicide-resistant
genetically engineered crops than on fields treated with conventional
herbicides.
http://www.biotech-info.net/troubledtimes.html

Roundup and cancer -- A study conducted in Sweden and published in the 15
March 1999 Journal of the American Cancer Society has revealed clear links
between glyphosate -- Roundup -- and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of
cancer.
http://www.purefood.org/Monsanto/glyphocancer.cfm





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