Trigger Happy With Toxins

‘Another Monsanto product, Xtend, uses a different herbicide — dicamba — that inspires no such debate. It’s bad for you.
A new form of genetically engineered crops — soybeans that can survive exposure to dicamba — means an increase of the use of dicamba. To rid a field of weeds, a farmer douses it in the herbicide. Only the soybeans live, while the weeds die.
Yet dicamba is a reproductive toxin. And now it’s going to cover crops that will be sold as food.
This is the first year farmers planted genetically engineered seeds that are made to use with dicamba. Over and above the potential harm to human health, though, dicamba is already causing trouble.
The toxic herbicide is drifting into other fields and killing other farmers’ crops, along with native plants that haven’t been modified to withstand the toxins.
This year, the dicamba-tolerant soybeans were planted on 20 million acres, the Washington Post reports. The dicamba sprayed on them damaged or killed crops on another 3.1 million acres.’
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