Originally posted by xecoybh
AP wire yesterday, quoting a few scientists and 'Center for Science and Public Policy'.
Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn
RICK CALLAHAN, Associated Press
www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Farming-practices-threaten-widely-grown-corn-crop-2429107.php
One of the nation's most widely planted crops — a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide — may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected.
The U.S. food supply is not in any immediate danger because the problem remains isolated. But scientists fear potentially risky farming practices could be blunting the hybrid's sophisticated weaponry.
When it was introduced in 2003, so-called Bt corn seemed like the answer to farmers' dreams: It would allow growers to bring in bountiful harvests using fewer chemicals because the corn naturally produces a toxin that poisons western corn rootworms. The hybrid was such a swift success that it and similar varieties now account for 65 percent of all U.S. corn acres — grain that ends up in thousands of everyday foods such as cereal, sweeteners and cooking oil.
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I wish I could give You a hundred stars for this! Yeah. We need toxic corn on this planet.
.....All these guys are running around tinkering with genes, creating synthetic molecules, changing proteins and other molecules'
structures - and telling us that well, they're different, so they won't affect existent life. Duh. FAMOUS LAST WORDS. 
