I was reading this article and saw a possible link, anyone know if bees are affected like butterflies?”Even the most ardent backers of biotechnology cannot be confident that Bt corn and the other new crops won’t leave unintended scars on the environment. A speed-up in evolution of pest resistance is one concern: Organic farmers who rely on Bt sprays worry that this tool may soon become useless to them. Another concern is the potentially destructive impact of pesticidal crops on innocent bystanders like the monarch butterfly. A third is the spread of genes for herbicide resistance to weedy relatives of the cultivars, resulting in the creation of “super-weeds.”
StarLink corn got into our food supply by mechanical means and human error, but there may well have been a drift of StarLink pollen onto conventional corn as the kernels developed— a wind-borne, biological contamination from one field to the next. Indeed, to guard against this possibility, the manufacturer, Aventis, stipulated buffer zones 660 feet wide around the StarLink rows. If the buffers were of conventional corn, this crop was supposed to have been limited to animal feed, too, but in practice it was not. ”
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