More and more individuals are becoming aware of Monsanto’s evils,
especially concerning it’s best-selling herbicide Round Up and its
carcinogenic ingredient glyphosate. But we’re just learning
about the registration of said chemicals in the form of GM crops as
antibiotics. And we’re just learning how these chemicals are fueling the
ever-expanding issue of antibiotic resistance.
Propaganda-spewing sites like GMO Answers try to tell us that the overuse of antibiotics in the only cause of super bugs, and that glyphosate has nothing to with this epic problem:
“The overuse of antibiotics in humans and the
intensive use in hospital settings is a major problem, but use of
antibiotics in agriculture can sometimes result in the selection of
antibiotic-resistant organisms, and these organisms may then cause
problems in the form of resistant human infections.
This matters only if a chemical (or a close relative with cross-resistance) is use in both
clinical medicine and agriculture. Because glyphosate is not used in
clinical medicine (and has no relatives used in medicine, either), the
use of glyphosate in agriculture has nothing to do with resistance to
antibiotics used in human medicine.”
