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Can you please elaborate what those are?

akamaka 10y ago
Emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds due to increased spraying of herbicide on GMO crops is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Effects_of_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Effects_of_use
- dogma1138 10y ago
  Herbicide-resistant weeds are not unique or new (natural selection is not dependant on GMO's ;)), there is now ones that are also resistant to Glyphosate/Roundup...
  - akamaka 10y ago
    You're just being pedantic. Technically speaking, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have always existed to.
    - Oletros 10y ago
      Second time you call another poster pedantic, the funny thing is that both times you were wrong. Resistance has nothing to do with GMO
      - akamaka 10y ago
        Resistant weeds are spreading due to massively increased usage of glyphosate, which is due to its use with GMO crops.
    - dogma1138 10y ago
      Glyphosate resistant GMO crops were developed in the mid 90's and early 2000's, Roundup was on the market in the 70's.... Resistance to pesticide and herbicide has been always developing, the fact that we have weeds that are resistant to Glyphosate doesn't have anything to do with GMO's, Glyphosate would still be used.
      - akamaka 10y ago
        Gylphosate usage has enormously increased in connection with GMO crops, and with that its side effect on the environment.
        dogma1138 10y ago
        Glyphosate usage has also increased in normal crops since seed treating technology was introduced which enables seeds to sprout in soil treated with herbicide regardless of GMOs (this actually predates GMOs by about 2 decades). The use of Glyphosate has been steadily increasing even before the introduction of EPSPS crops.
      - undersuit 10y ago
        You used to do spot sprayings with glyphosate... because it would kill any plant. Now that we have Glyphosate resistant GMO crops we just spray the entire field. Normal conditions in nature don't favor a heavily glyphosate resistant plant, multiple sprays of glyphosate in a season does.

Emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds due to increased spraying of herbicide on GMO crops is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Effects_of_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Effects_of_use

dogma1138 10y ago
Herbicide-resistant weeds are not unique or new (natural selection is not dependant on GMO's ;)), there is now ones that are also resistant to Glyphosate/Roundup...
- akamaka 10y ago
  You're just being pedantic. Technically speaking, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have always existed to.
  - Oletros 10y ago
    Second time you call another poster pedantic, the funny thing is that both times you were wrong. Resistance has nothing to do with GMO
    - akamaka 10y ago
      Resistant weeds are spreading due to massively increased usage of glyphosate, which is due to its use with GMO crops.
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    Glyphosate resistant GMO crops were developed in the mid 90's and early 2000's, Roundup was on the market in the 70's.... Resistance to pesticide and herbicide has been always developing, the fact that we have weeds that are resistant to Glyphosate doesn't have anything to do with GMO's, Glyphosate would still be used.
    - akamaka 10y ago
      Gylphosate usage has enormously increased in connection with GMO crops, and with that its side effect on the environment.
      - dogma1138 10y ago
        Glyphosate usage has also increased in normal crops since seed treating technology was introduced which enables seeds to sprout in soil treated with herbicide regardless of GMOs (this actually predates GMOs by about 2 decades). The use of Glyphosate has been steadily increasing even before the introduction of EPSPS crops.
    - undersuit 10y ago
      You used to do spot sprayings with glyphosate... because it would kill any plant. Now that we have Glyphosate resistant GMO crops we just spray the entire field. Normal conditions in nature don't favor a heavily glyphosate resistant plant, multiple sprays of glyphosate in a season does.