More than 8.6 billion kilograms of glyphosate have been used worldwide since the 1970s. Herbicide tolerant crops became the lynchpin of the technological revolution for large‐scale farming first in the United States and Canada, and now in Europe. Zero‐till farming, as a production scheme and a world view, is based on simplifications promoted by a handful of transnational corporations with the complicity of politicians looking for easy solutions for problems, such as climate change, erosion and the hunger in the world. At the same time, the massive use of glyphosate is branded as an endocrine disrupter, causing cancer, male sterility and infertility. It interferes with soil bacteria and acts on the equilibrium of soil fungi. Glyphosate resistant crops connect farmers to far away consumers ingesting the food they grow together with the traces of chemicals. Farmers intra‐act with the myriads of life‐forms of the soil eco‐system. How do they perceive the life in the soil, when they spray chemicals? The article explores the political dimensions of the agency of both humans and non‐humans to understand the effects of the modernizing project of zero‐till, as well as to identify spaces and scales of possibility from where alternatives can emerge.

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草甘膦-一个爱情故事。工业化农业中的普通思想和反应能力

自1970年代以来，全球使用了超过86亿公斤草甘膦。耐除草剂的作物首先在美国和加拿大，现在在欧洲，成为大规模农业技术革命的关键。零耕农业作为一种生产计划和世界观，是基于少数跨国公司的简化，而这些简化是政治家的同谋，他们寻求诸如气候变化，侵蚀和世界饥饿之类的问题的简便解决方案。同时，大量使用草甘膦被称为内分泌干扰物，导致癌症，男性不育症和不育症。它干扰土壤细菌并影响土壤真菌的平衡。抗草甘膦的农作物将农民与遥远的消费者联系起来，将他们所种植的食物与微量化学物质一起摄入。农民参与了土壤生态系统的多种生命形式。当他们喷洒化学药品时，他们如何看待土壤中的生命？本文探讨了人类和非人类代理机构的政治维度，以了解零耕种现代化项目的效果，并确定替代方案可能出现的空间和规模。