USDA Scientist: Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Damages Soil


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USDA Scientist: Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Damages Soil

—By Tom Philpott

| Fri Aug. 19, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

 

“The heavy use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide appears to be causing harmful changes in soil and potentially hindering yields of the genetically modified crops that farmers are cultivating, a US government scientist said on Friday. Repeated use of the chemical glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup herbicide, impacts the root structure of plants, and 15 years of research indicates that the chemical could be causing fungal root disease, said Bob Kremer, a microbiologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.”

 

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