Source: Dan Charles, GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 4/12/19

There was a moment, about 20 years ago, when farmers thought that they’d finally defeated weeds forever. Biotech companies had given them a new weapon: genetically engineered crops that could tolerate doses of the herbicide glyphosate, also known by its trade name, Roundup. Farmers could spray this chemical right over their crops, eliminate the weeds, and the crops were fine.
Stanley Culpepper remembers that moment. He’d left his family’s farm to study weed science at North Carolina State University.

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