Herbicide

of an herbicide over Vietnam’s jungles. The Vietnam War was between the Communist North Vietnam and the United States. The conflict became global when Communist-supportive countries began sending reinforcements to the Vietnamese and the United States gained support from its allies. The Viet Cong soldiers knew their jungles by heart and used the plant cover to their benefit, hiding from the US Army in strategic places. To combat the newfound advantage, the United States developed an herbicide…

allergies, reduction of plant diversity, and increasing the use of herbicide creating resistant weeds and health concerns. Just because our world is industrializing does not mean our food source should be. The main concern with scientifically altered food is that no long term human testing has ever been done on GMOs. So why does food, which has never been tested, being consumed by people every day? In 2007 an experiment was done testing herbicide resistant soybeans. When given to rats it…

designed the animal feed plant, alfalfa, consisting with a goal that it could oppose the herbicide Roundup. Their goal was accomplished by injecting into the alfalfa plant cellular wall, E. Coli microorganism with a soil microorganism gene into its DNA, moreover had extensive exposure to glyphosate (the vital element consisted in RoundUp). The alfalfa plant then becomes a GMO and is resistant to the herbicide which enables…

Selectively, it is adapted genes from another species to improve its own characteristics such as pests and herbicides resistance. One example of GMOs is glyphosate-tolerant crops. Corp plants were inserted with herbicide resistance genes in to their DNA. This eliminates the effect from the herbicides to these plants but leaving the weeds unprotected. (Manjunath, 2015). In 1994, Monsanto introduced glyphosate-tolerant crops using genetic engineering…

production is not compromised. However, as glyphosate is sprayed on plants, it eventually ends up in our bodies. A study detected 44% of people from 18 European countries to show residues of glyphosate in a urine test. Our body is exposed to this herbicide when we consume GM sugar, corn, soy, and wheat. These products are found in processed food. Glyphosate can become concerning to society if people are exposed to enough of it, resulting in a disruption in normal body functions and risks of…

GMO crops that posed no problem to our environment. The promise of herbicide tolerant crops were of easy weed control and fewer chemical applications, this is now not the case. These crops require fertilizer, and our now producing weeds that are resistant to the common herbicides. These crops are now herbicide tolerant and require the use of stronger and different herbicides to control them. In addition to the crops being herbicide tolerant, they also seem to be more susceptible to fungus and…

to withstand herbicides. A company called Monsanto sell Roundup Ready crops, that are designed to survive the uses of their Roundup herbicide. According to the the IRT, “Between 1996 and 2008, US farmers sprayed an extra 383 million pounds of herbicide on GMOs,” (10). Overuse of the Roundup resulted in ‘superweeds,” resistant to the herbicide. This made farmers use more of the herbicide. Not only does it cause environmental harm, GM foods contain a higher residue of toxic herbicide. Many cases…

When it comes to war, armies must sometimes introduce an alternative plan in order to gain the upper hand over the enemy. When the Americans were at war with the Vietnamese decades ago, they planned to use herbicides as a new strategic asset against their adversaries. By spraying defoliating agents over the forests of Vietnam, hidden enemies would be exposed, and the crops that they harvested as food would also be destroyed. In 1962, defoliation missions ordered by the U.S. military commenced,…

The case of Bowman v. Monsanto Company, Case No. 11-796, was brought to the United States Supreme Court on February 19, 2013. The plaintiff Monsanto patented a soybean that resisted its own Round Up Ready herbicide (“Supreme Court,” n.d). Monsanto Company constructed a contract for farmers to sign prior to using the seeds. The contract obligates farmers to acknowledge the intent of never saving seeds from the resulting crop. This meant that the farmer would be obliged to purchase new seeds…

This gives the crop a better chance of doing well and producing a larger yield. Therefore, creating a more efficient use of the land and reducing the use of pesticides and herbicides. By genetically modifying the seeds, they claim it gives the crop a better taste and texture, which is obviously subjective. Lastly, it is said this is a sustainable way to feed the world, which I explained is not true previously. For these reasons…