Thursday, August 25, 2011

GMO Corn In Danger

Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides. Not only plants, but insects are also developing resistance. The Western rootworm beetle – one of the most serious threats to corn – has developed resistance to Monsanto’s Bt-corn, and entire crops are being lost.

Farmers from several Midwest states began reporting root damage to corn that was specifically engineered with a toxin to kill the rootworm. Iowa State University entomologist Aaron Gassmann recently confirmed that the beetle, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, has developed resistance to the Bt protein, Cry3Bb1.

Bacillus thuringiensis – Bt – is a bacterium that kills insects. Different proteins are engineered into cotton as well as corn plants.


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Nature will always win, against anything "engineered"

Bacteria are a highly intelligent and adaptable life form, like all life forms their goal is to survive. In my opinion, bacteria are more intelligent than GMO engineers. Bacteria are part of nature, while engineers work against nature, eventually they will lose.

Some bacteria are naturally immune to antibiotics & pesticides and others quickly adapt a resistance in order to survive.

Through pharmaceutical use we have created highly adaptable, antibiotic resistant bacteria, they do this through evolutionary trial and error.

Bacteria create new generations 500,000 faster than humans,replicating every 20 minutes.

The pathogenic bacteria become stronger and more resistance to an increasing number of antibiotics and pesticides, which are more potent, more dangerous and creating imbalances that are more difficult to restore.

Bacteria also communicate their survival skills with other bacteria, they exchange antibiotic resistance information, teaching other bacteria how to resist, avoid and override antibiotics, or GMO pesticides.

Isn't nature amazing?

Bacteria share their information to resist pharmaceuticals or pesticides via a mechanism of copying the resistant bacteriums DNA, thus passing the resistance onto the next generation of bacteria.

The next generation of bacteria has learned from past generations and is now more efficient on how to over throw any pharmaceutical drug, or GMO pesticide, thrown at it!

If that weren't wonderful enough, bacteria also emit pheromones that attract other bacteria to them to share more information against fighting antibiotics , or GMO pesticides, that would threaten their survival.

Almost in anticipation of new antibiotics, or GMO & pesticides, bacteria also develop resistance to antibiotics and pesticides that they have never encountered.

Let's help out the Bettle by REJECTING ALL GMO & Voting our dollars with nature!

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