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In reply to the discussion: Insect Experts issue "Urgent" Warning on using GM seeds [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)35. The Third Horseman of the Apocalypse
Famine. Thanks Monsanto, et als.
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I guess God must have created some Bt resistant rootworms just to teach us a lesson. nt
bemildred
Mar 2012
#1
I had read somewhere (but can't find the link now) that about 95% of commercially grown
AllyCat
Mar 2012
#6
You think that's bad, my family carries what we rerer to as the "Samuel Jackson gene"
hedgehog
Mar 2012
#22
That's because it's applied externally and rots, it's not the innards of the plant producing it.
saras
Mar 2012
#28
there are actual differences between the specificity/mode of action/biodegradebaly of the B.t. toxin
Tumbulu
Mar 2012
#72
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
There is always that one greedy F'er down the road that will go fencerow to fencerow with corn while
HubertHeaver
Mar 2012
#19
Insects hate it too. Anything dangerous to one form of life is likely to be dangerous to another.
harun
Mar 2012
#33