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We can do modern agriculture without Roundup.



Back in 2007, this paper reported that about 20% of US crop production was owed to herbicides: https://croplifefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/we...

We probably won't get to multiple-resistant weeds in a day, or even a decade, but the path towards stronger weed control measures is going to be a very painful one.


We feed a ton of grain to livestock which, while delicious, is not an efficient use of land to get calories. We also lose a bunch of food to inefficiencies in the food chain because it's not worth fixing precisely because techologies like pesticides let us produce so much




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