Now let me tell something about normal agricultural practices: Do you know what is crop desiccation? [1] It's the application of glyphosate (brand-name: Roundu

Now let me tell something about normal agricultural practices: Do you know what is crop desiccation? [1] It's the application of glyphosate (brand-name: Roundup) a bit before harvesting, to ripen (read: killing the green parts, so the plant begins to dry) the plants to make harvest easier. And to make subsequent storing easier, as the drier plants e.g. are not so susceptible to mold etc. So, the application of herbicides (not pesticides like you wrote) to effectively poison the plants dead, to make harvesting and storing easier, is business-as-usual in agriculture. So yes, there are "Roundup ready" varieties of crop plants, that are resistant to glyphosate. So the farmer can kill the weeds with glyphosate, and the crop plants won't die. And if you only know this application of glyphosate, you probably make the conclusion that the "Roundup ready" GMO varieties would promote "atrociously excessive use of" glyphosate. But which do you think is actually more atrocious use? The business-as-usual use for crop desiccation before harvest, or the extra use during growth, allowed by the "Roundup ready" varieties? (Northern Europe and Switzerland are the only countries I know, that prohibit the use of herbicides for crop desiccation, if the crop is for human consumption.) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation