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In the discussion thread: Insect Experts issue "Urgent" Warning on using GM seeds [View all]

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:43 PM

AllyCat (7,520 posts)

6. I had read somewhere (but can't find the link now) that about 95% of commercially grown

corn is GMO. And it pretty much messes it up for all the organic farmers and the remaining percent that use regular corn because it cross pollinates within a mile of the GMO crap corn fields.

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Insect Experts issue "Urgent" Warning on using GM seeds [View all]	hedgehog	Mar 2012	OP
I guess God must have created some Bt resistant rootworms just to teach us a lesson. nt	bemildred	Mar 2012	#1
Du rec. Nt	xchrom	Mar 2012	#2
from your article above ...we just sold our corn surplus to CHINA	lovuian	Mar 2012	#3
Resistant?	MuseRider	Mar 2012	#4
I had read somewhere (but can't find the link now) that about 95% of commercially grown	AllyCat	Mar 2012	#6
yeah, well we can go back on the DU forum	newspeak	Mar 2012	#59
Yeah, that was Percy Schmeiser.	laundry_queen	Apr 2012	#81
Corn couldn't exist/grow in the wild	Marthe48	Apr 2012	#80
the name derives from the form of the toxin in situ in Bt....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#9
:-)	MuseRider	Mar 2012	#18
You think that's bad, my family carries what we rerer to as the "Samuel Jackson gene"	hedgehog	Mar 2012	#22
LOL-- it sounds juvenile...	mike_c	Mar 2012	#34
If I understood you right	caseymoz	Mar 2012	#49
I'd like to follow this	siligut	Mar 2012	#5
Leave it up to Monsanto...	CanSocDem	Mar 2012	#7
Do not eat corn or corn products.	The Doctor.	Mar 2012	#8
poisoned?	mike_c	Mar 2012	#10
You are incorrect!	tonybgood	Mar 2012	#13
The Bt toxin as used by organic farmers has not been shown to cause harm.	hedgehog	Mar 2012	#27
That's because it's applied externally and rots, it's not the innards of the plant producing it.	saras	Mar 2012	#28
the cry endotoxins are identical...	mike_c	Mar 2012	#30
but in different forms (crystal vs raw toxin)	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#44
there is no evidence of vertebrate Bt toxicity at all, period....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#29
Good to have that info - it's what I would expect, but I	hedgehog	Mar 2012	#39
There are thousands of B.t. strains and some produce other endogenous	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#45
What are the results?	Gore1FL	Mar 2012	#50
In the three years that I worked	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#57
that's in Bacillus, not in the engineered plant....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#58
yes, I in fact identified toxins	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#60
Problem is, it isn't just genes that matter.	OrwellwasRight	Mar 2012	#65
well, Bt is extremely well studied...	mike_c	Mar 2012	#66
there are actual differences between the specificity/mode of action/biodegradebaly of the B.t. toxin	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#72
citation?	mike_c	Apr 2012	#73
You can google this perhaps	Tumbulu	Apr 2012	#76
As long as it don't kill you it is good to eat...	zeemike	Mar 2012	#14
I must be part bug then.	DCKit	Mar 2012	#21
be that as it may, Bt has nothing to do with it....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#31
Well, then I guess whatever it breaks down to is pretty toxic to my system.	DCKit	Mar 2012	#41
I do believe that the toxin produced by the plant	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#47
You have belief, I have Santorum. nt	DCKit	Mar 2012	#53
Or to re-phrase what you have said -	hedgehog	Mar 2012	#26
exactly so....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#32
Humans shit on all their gifts. Including the earth itself.	hunter	Mar 2012	#38
Well said!	hedgehog	Mar 2012	#40
AND in 1986 at the Entomological Association	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#46
the crystal toxin produced by the bacteria	Tumbulu	Mar 2012	#43
Mitchell says, "A lot of the time, farming is run by bankers now".	Trillo	Mar 2012	#11
Cash-crop farming always has been.	HubertHeaver	Mar 2012	#17
And in modern day America, zoning codes are used	Trillo	Mar 2012	#56
Pre-Civil War subsistence agriculture was the rule for poor whites and free blacks.	HubertHeaver	Mar 2012	#61
Can't sell a solution if there are no problems. The Spanish did their best to outlaw the natives in	harun	Mar 2012	#63
Back to the pesticides. nt	Snake Alchemist	Mar 2012	#12
$15 a bushel corn!	sulphurdunn	Mar 2012	#15
It is not clear what the urgency is	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#16
There is always that one greedy F'er down the road that will go fencerow to fencerow with corn while	HubertHeaver	Mar 2012	#19
It's not so easy for the very large farms to go back to crop rotation anymore	NickB79	Apr 2012	#77
Another flavour of "Too Big To Fail"?	Nihil	Apr 2012	#78
SUPRISE! SUPRISE! Nature is smarter than (Mon)Insaneto.	Dont call me Shirley	Mar 2012	#20
Of course, this will be kept quiet from the mainstream.....	Smilo	Mar 2012	#23
I guess the GM manufactuers could Sue the Insects n/t	LarryNM	Mar 2012	#24
Great! Built in insecticide	lunatica	Mar 2012	#25
Insects hate it too. Anything dangerous to one form of life is likely to be dangerous to another.	harun	Mar 2012	#33
oxygen is utterly toxic to anaerobic organisms...	mike_c	Mar 2012	#36
The Third Horseman of the Apocalypse	1monster	Mar 2012	#35
Evolution 1 Genetic Engineering 0.	Crunchy Frog	Mar 2012	#37
While I hate to see this happening I still think that something like this needed to happen in order	jwirr	Mar 2012	#42
Heard a report on NPR	Bohunk68	Mar 2012	#48
If anything that report actually underestimated how bad the stuff is.	JoeyT	Mar 2012	#51
My understanding of sustainable or organic gardening methods is that	hedgehog	Mar 2012	#55
Wow...	chervilant	Mar 2012	#52
That's primarily due to depleted soil nutrition	NickB79	Mar 2012	#70
Indeed.	chervilant	Mar 2012	#71
No matter what they have ever done to get rid of insects	RoccoR5955	Mar 2012	#54
Soylent green is people!....	Evasporque	Mar 2012	#62
How ironic that their worst nightmare has been realized, when America's	Vidar	Mar 2012	#64
The bigger question is how durable is the seed?	Baitball Blogger	Mar 2012	#67
you mean the wild corn seed?	Kali	Mar 2012	#68
Well, that's a good thing, right?	Baitball Blogger	Mar 2012	#69
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men	slackmaster	Apr 2012	#74
History shows again and again the folly of mother nature......	nolabels	Apr 2012	#79
Don't mess with Mother Nature.	Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel	Apr 2012	#75

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