When I first saw the title to this article, I thought the author was referring to people! People as weeds. We grow anywhere, especially in “disturbed soil.” We are hard to kill off. We morph when necessary. We work together. We help each other survive. We are nature. Nature bats last.
See: 5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 billion. Monsanto Vs Nature: The Weeds Fight Back
So much of Monsanto’s poison was spread in the past decade that weeds naturally developed a resistance to it.
June 5, 2012 by GLR Jim Hightower alternet.org
Rather than find ways to cooperate with the natural world, America’s agribusiness giants reach for the next quick fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is that if brute force isn’t working, they’re probably not using enough of it.