Herbicide-tolerant crops are engineered to enable crops to withstand doses of herbicides that would otherwise kill them. These crops are generally developed by the manufacturers of the herbicide with the hope of increasing the sale of that herbicide. Roundup ReadyTM crops, for example, are produced by the Monsanto company, the producer of the herbicide Roundup, a billion-dollar product that generates about 40 percent of the company’s annual revenue. The projected planting of perhaps 12 million acres of Roundup ReadyTM soybeans will substantially increase Monsanto’s revenues as farmers switch from their current herbicide to Roundup.

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