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I would argue that Atrazine is a well known problem herbicide with well know problems due to its persistence in especially water. Glyphosate which is a lot safer and less persistent substantially replaced atrazine when you have GM crops that are engineered to be tolerant. This has had great benefit to the land despite what activists or people who speculate that all government and corporate people are corrupt and the activists are 100% pure. I was a member of the Friends of the Earth for a while and realized that many NGOs are just against things. They are not trying to encourage a better approach. We would all love to produce food cheaply with zero impact on the environment as if the crop wasn't there but the biggest impact is growing any crop any way. If we assume we need to grow the crop and you assume that most major row crops need weed control how can you do that effective such that the farmers doesn't go bust ! Atrazine is not the best . Glyphosate is better.