[varyouga]

It’s often used with genetically selected (not engineered) crops. The special crops are selected for their immunity to the herbicide.

While it becomes much easier to grow crops, I’m sure more traces of the chemicals will show up in our food.

The effects of the chemicals are debatable but I prefer 100% natural local farm grown. You can’t go wrong with natural and the flavor is definitely not debatable.

[Olog-hai]

I understand that sentiment. Especially after discovering that the roots of today’s “agribusiness” are in the Ten Planks of Communism as written in the Manifesto.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. …

[Will88]

It’s often used with genetically selected (not engineered) crops. The special crops are selected for their immunity to the herbicide.

Oh, it's definitely being used on genetically engineered crops on a monumental scale, crops engineered to withstand the herbicide in Roundup. Roundup Ready Crops. From the article.

Monsanto is the developer of both Roundup herbicide and a suite of crops that are genetically altered to withstand being sprayed with the Roundup weed killer.

These biotech crops, including corn, soybeans, canola and sugarbeets, are planted on millions of acres in the United States annually. Farmers like them because they can spray Roundup weed killer directly on the crops to kill weeds in the fields without harming the crops.