Round Up with Roundup- NOT!

Even though we don't use Roundup or other chemicals in our garden we find many of of neighbors spraying these on their lawns and gardens. There is enough data now to show the emergence of "superweeds" resistant to these herbicides. Eventually these get into the human or animal systems. Rather than working with nature, the focus is on spraying nature into submission.

U.S. Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds - NYTimes.com: "Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers’ near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds.

To fight them, Mr. Anderson and farmers throughout the East, Midwest and South are being forced to spray fields with more toxic herbicides, pull weeds by hand and return to more labor-intensive methods like regular plowing.

“We’re back to where we were 20 years ago,” said Mr. Anderson, who will plow about one-third of his 3,000 acres of soybean fields this spring, more than he has in years. “We’re trying to find out what works."