Date: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Subject: Insect Experts Issue 'Urgent' Warning On Using Biotech Seeds : The Salt : NPR
For America's agricultural biotech companies, the corn rootworm is threatening to turn into their worst nightmare.
Subject: Insect Experts Issue 'Urgent' Warning On Using Biotech Seeds : The Salt : NPR
For America's agricultural biotech companies, the corn rootworm is threatening to turn into their worst nightmare.
Last year, we reported that a major insect pest, the corn rootworm, had "found a chink in the armor" of genetically engineered crops. In several different places across the corn belt, the insects have developed resistance to an inserted gene that is supposed to kill them.
Now, in a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released this week, 22 of the nation's top experts on corn pests lay out some of the implications of this discovery, and they are potentially profound.
An excerpt, more at......
http://www.npr.org/
Now, in a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released this week, 22 of the nation's top experts on corn pests lay out some of the implications of this discovery, and they are potentially profound.
An excerpt, more at......
http://www.npr.org/
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