The toxic herbicide #glyphosate (roundUp) has found a new and inventive way to kill you.... #landslide anyone? >> In the Philippine highlands, forests have been stripped away by intensive GMO corn farming and the accompanying heavy herbicide use, leaving downstream communities to pay the price in the form of devastating floods, a report for the Philippine newspaper The Daily Guardian says. The report leads with the story of Rona Aloadiel, a resident of northern Iloil province, who on Christmas Day 2019 lost six of her loved ones to drowning when floodwaters surged from the higher slopes. For locals, the tragedy was not entirely a surprise. Aloadiel said they had witnessed the steady disappearance of trees in the corn capital of Iloilo, replaced by expanding, multi-hectare farms of the GMO crop. #philippines #gmo #corn #forests #soilErosion