Peter1469
01-08-2016, 06:19 AM
Pest-resistant GM corn creates super-pests (http://www.naturalnews.com/052505_GM_corn_pesticide_resistance_rootworms.html )
Monsanto's pest resistant GM corn is creating super-pests. Not to mention doing a number on the flora in the guts of humans and animals that eat it.
Yet another case against GM crops and their ineffectiveness has surfaced, this time in the instance of rootworms that have been found to be resistant to GM corn. Surprisingly, unlike many times in the past where industry regulators claim there is not enough evidence to support certain findings, the Environmental Protection Agency is actually considering putting limits on GM corn.(1)
It would appear that the persistence of rootworms, a superpest that wreaks havoc on corn crops since they're proving to be resistant to Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) poison, has become an eye-opening situation that's led the government to consider making changes to GM corn cultivation.
Specifically, the EPA is suggesting that, after two years in a row of GM corn being grown, approximately 35 percent of corn fields be planted with another plant. They say that this will prevent farmers from engaging in excessive use of environmentally harmful pesticides, drenching even more of the toxins on the corn in an effort to destroy the rootworm. Monsanto, DuPont and Dow Chemical all sell rootworm-resistant corn; Monsanto was the first to sell it.(1,2)
"Continuous corn is the perfect habitat for rootworm," Aaron Gassmann, an Iowa State University entomologist, has previously said. As an increasing amount of corn crops has been ruined through the years, his comment seems to support the EPA's recent suggestion to plant additional crops after two years.(3)
Read more at the link.
Monsanto's pest resistant GM corn is creating super-pests. Not to mention doing a number on the flora in the guts of humans and animals that eat it.
Yet another case against GM crops and their ineffectiveness has surfaced, this time in the instance of rootworms that have been found to be resistant to GM corn. Surprisingly, unlike many times in the past where industry regulators claim there is not enough evidence to support certain findings, the Environmental Protection Agency is actually considering putting limits on GM corn.(1)
It would appear that the persistence of rootworms, a superpest that wreaks havoc on corn crops since they're proving to be resistant to Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) poison, has become an eye-opening situation that's led the government to consider making changes to GM corn cultivation.
Specifically, the EPA is suggesting that, after two years in a row of GM corn being grown, approximately 35 percent of corn fields be planted with another plant. They say that this will prevent farmers from engaging in excessive use of environmentally harmful pesticides, drenching even more of the toxins on the corn in an effort to destroy the rootworm. Monsanto, DuPont and Dow Chemical all sell rootworm-resistant corn; Monsanto was the first to sell it.(1,2)
"Continuous corn is the perfect habitat for rootworm," Aaron Gassmann, an Iowa State University entomologist, has previously said. As an increasing amount of corn crops has been ruined through the years, his comment seems to support the EPA's recent suggestion to plant additional crops after two years.(3)
Read more at the link.