Push For New Genetically Engineered Corn Divides Agribusiness

From about the 1980's a less harmful (compared to some of the other strait up poisons, so still pretty harmful) herbicide called "Roundup" was used. However, some weeds have become resistant to round up (nicknamed Pigweed) and are becoming a big problem for some farmers. The idea to create plants (such as corn and soy) that are resistant to a more toxic herbicide called 2,4-D which was one of the ingredients used in Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. However, several cancers such as Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and many others are linked to this chemical. There are the used debates about how less herbicide could be used and it would actually be less harmful but at the end of the day poison is poison. I believe that if Roundup stopped working so will 2,4-D and then we will need to use something stronger. If the resistant genes are being modified in to corn and soy then I don’t think it is rocket science to assume that they will transfer to weeds as well.