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To: Ish who wrote (107024)	7/30/2005 2:22:50 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) of 108807

It seems like you are using a technical difference between herbicides and pesticides to avoid discussing the issue at hand--that GM technology does not reduce their use. While certainly as a farmer you would not use the words interchangeably because you might direct a worker to spray the wrong substance on a crop if you did, for example, in terms of discussing the environmental damage they cause, or whether GM technology will reduce their use, they are interchangeable. The Guardian article I posted uses both interchangeably as well, with pesticide in the subtitle and herbicide in the text. I looked up the definitions on the web, and an herbicide is a subcategory of pesticides. The broad categroy is indeed pesticides, and it is not incorrect to refer to herbicides as pesticides: A herbicide is a pesticide used to kill unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill certain targets while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth of the weed and are often based on plant hormones. Herbicides used to clear waste ground are nonselective and kill every plant with which they come into contact. encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com

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