Wednesday, January 29, 2014

GMO crops -- bad for humans and butterflies

Monarch butterflies in decline due mainly to GMO crops...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/monarch-butterflies-drop-migration-may-disappear/

EXCERPT:

 Lincoln Brower, a leading entomologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, wrote that "the migration is definitely proving to be an endangered biological phenomenon."

"The main culprit," he wrote in an email, is now genetically modified "herbicide-resistant corn and soybean crops and herbicides in the USA," which "leads to the wholesale killing of the monarch's principal food plant, common milkweed."

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