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In reply to the discussion: Insect Experts issue "Urgent" Warning on using GM seeds [View all]Tumbulu
(6,278 posts)57. In the three years that I worked
at the plant we never had a batch that produced mammalian toxicity, but every batch was tested. And it was a pricey test that we had to send out to another lab. I have no idea if there has been a bad batch one since, that was 20+ years ago. They still run those tests, I am told. Any bad batch would be discarded. The point is that they spend good money testing every single batch to make sure that no mutation has occurred which causes the B.t. to produce a toxin that mammals are susceptible to.
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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