Re: Byssinosis from GM cotton?

"Mooshie peas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On 22 Aug 2003 23:32:50 GMT, Brian Sandle
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>
> >Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Excerpt from Brian Sandle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >>> Recent news has stated how Monsanto are embarassed by this: many GM
crop
> >>> fields are now plagued by weeds resistant to Roundup herbicide. That
means
> >>> extra doses of Roundup and other herbicides are being applied.  Does
any
> >>> of it stay in the cotton lint, and on to the spun thread?
> >
> >>> If the lint of Bt cotton does not contain Bt I wonder if insects will
> >>> adapt to eating mainly the lint, thereby escaping too much toxin. Does
a
> >>> wood borer get energy from cellulose?
> >
> >> Heavy use of Roundup for weed control in connection with Roundup-ready
GM crops
> >> whose seeds are produced by Monsanto leads to the weeds evolving
resistance to
> >> Roundup, just as insects have evolved resistance to insecticides.
> >
> >As well as the fields getting filled with plants like nettles which
> >already had resistance.
>
> So how were nettles being dealt with in the past?
> You seem to want to blame RR crops for the nettle problem.
>
> >As Gordon showed us:
> >
> >http://www.couger.com/farm. He said the weeds are nettles and will
> >go down with the first dose of Roundup. But I have recently posted
> >`weeds' thread, that anettles are not so susceptible to Roundup. A
> >mix with pursuit is needed.
>
> Which nettles, BTW? Nettles are pehaps not as susceptible to Roundup
> as other weeds? I don't know, but it seems to me that nettles are
> totally irrelevant.
>
> >So maybe the Roundup had already applied.
>
> Applied what?
>
> >Gordon said the yellow colour of those plants was younger age,
> >compared to his ones.
> >
> >Or maybe Or maybe Roundup (glyphosate) causes some yellowing, in
> >Roundup Ready plants, even if not as much as Zeneca's sulfosinate
> >
> >http://www.weeds.iastate.edu/weednews/monsantoad.jpg
> >
> >thanks Torsten.
>
> How come the Zeneca plants are bigger, and the soil is yellower?   :)
>

Zeneca's plants are soybeans not cotton at a later stage of maturity.

Gordon