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antibiotic resistance

03/22/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Coincidence? Monsanto patented glyphosate as an “antibiotic” drug, claiming weed killer is medicine

While you’d be hard pressed to find anyone willing to use a known herbicide for medicinal purposes, that hasn’t stopped Monsanto from patenting the star ingredient of their flagship herbicide, Roundup, as a type of antibiotic. In 2003, the corporate giant first submitted a patent for glyphosate as a parasitic control-type antimicrobial agent — or, […]

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