How Roundup Kills Weeds (And How Weeds are Fighting Back)

Udinanon

2023-01-15 15:37:01

Couldn0t we find a different tactic altogether?
Instead of focusing on high intensity industrial farming that wants square kilometers of land without weeds, finding ways to integrate those inside the agricultural system?
If I'm not mistaken, weeds often have relevant ecological and agricultural impact, such as soil health, soil bacteria, fixing nitrogen, controlling erosion and more.
Looking for the next RoundUp seems like just repeating the same mistake again, while not focusing onto the other negative effects of mass herbicide usage, which has immense impacts on things like natural plants and ecosystems, algae and rivers and other environments.
It would probably give us a bridge to avoid low yields, but as these weeds have shown this window is short and temporary, and we need to find a more long term solution

John C Gibson

2023-01-15 03:03:07

Like your wording "fighting" for plants. They don't run or bite to fend off the invaders, but they do grab and smash atoms to create molecular fences and immunities.

Lawpicking Locksmith LPL

2023-01-10 20:37:16

Now I know why Bayer so desperately wanted to buy it from Monsanto: It is like the GM of cars, great advertising, bad car. But will vegans now all have to die because of them surviving weeds?

John Burrows

2023-01-04 00:02:35

I used Roundup once. NEVER AGAIN... after my dog ended up with cancer and died.

slade beck

2022-11-29 19:13:17

By far the best explanation of how roundup works, Roundup ready crops, and herbicide resistance I could find on the internet!!! Very good job!!!

Antardhana

2022-10-04 02:15:32

Having adult-onset type III sensitivity to soy, I wonder if ready crops were a contributing factor... 🤔

Jim mij

2022-09-25 10:18:04

Pity that weeds cant be made edible.

Astroch

2022-09-21 14:52:49

Monsanto, when the devil plays capitalism

Seth Apex

2022-09-19 13:29:40

Glyphosate has been linked to cancers, just because we don't have the shikimate pathway, doesn't mean we are unaffected by it.

Dhindara Vrel

2022-09-16 17:18:13

Weeds will never be resistant to mechanically removing them. There are machines available that can distinguish between the intended crop any any other plant, and they'll rip out only what's not supposed to grow there, completely without any poison being used, nothing accumulates in the ground or water, nothing gets blown off into fragile ecosystems.

Kevin Folta

2022-09-16 14:31:47

There are other issues impeding development of new herbicides. Massive cost of R&D and massive-er cost of deregulation. Plus, essentially non-toxic-to-non-targets herbicides like glyphosate are being vilified by the activist, social and traditional media, bolstering science-free nuisance lawsuits. Glyphosate has its issues with environmental impacts and resistance, no doubt. But when a safe chemistry becomes the basis of billion dollar lawsuits, why would you possibly want to invent the next safe chemistry?

狐夢美

2022-09-16 00:45:22

Shikimate comes from the japanese word シキミ (shikimi) which is the japanese star anise so considering how the language works, your pronounciation would probably be more accurate. I'm not sure of the -ate suffix but otherwise, yeah I'd go with shee-kee-mah-teh.
Sounds better anyway.

TNB1

2022-09-15 20:00:17

-ate in shikimate is the same ending as carbonate, nitrate. It is a chemical nomenclature.

AZCobraman

2022-09-15 15:45:25

Great vid. Very informative.
Gotta love the doofuses that want to turn our food production over to Skynet tho...lol

premier69

2022-09-15 13:01:52

if it stopped working is great. stop using it.

Siel the snail

2022-09-15 12:09:06

Why have a letter if you aren't going to pronounce it? I know there are other silent letters but those used to be pronounced.

BRUXXUS

2022-09-15 03:17:02

I love this channel. :D

Ulthar Cat

2022-09-15 03:04:07

Fuck monsanto 💜

Eternal Valentine Daze

2022-09-15 02:29:29

OR you can skip the chemicals and just make a solar robot that pulls weeds and turns them into mulch.