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Phage
reply to post by Raxoxane
You might want to direct your ire to Bayer and Syngenta. They're the ones who sell most of the neonicotinoids.
Are non-GM seeds treated with neonicotinoids?
Neonicotinoid seed treatment technology is embraced by many farmers across Europe for all the crops reviewed. For example, sugar beet farmers strongly depend on this technology, which has transformed their industry since it was introduced in the 1990s. The technology has the potential to also fully transform Oilseed Rape production and many key growing countries already rely on it.
Neonicotinoid seed treatment is also becoming invaluable for corn and forage maize and currently addresses severe pest problems for approximately 40% of key European growing areas. Neonicotinoid seed treatment is used on approximately 60% of the Sunflower growing areas in the EU and increasingly on Wheat and Barley to help growers cope with damaging pest issues, primarily in Western Europe.
Phage
reply to post by ZeussusZ
Are non-GM seeds treated with neonicotinoids?
Yes.
There are two GM crops (MON 810 and the Amflora potato) approved for cultivation in the EU. There are many other crops which are treated.
Phage
reply to post by burntheships
What answer?
Neonicotinoids are not exclusive to GM crops.
Monsanto introduced three different strains of patented, GE corn between 1997 and 2003.
Clothianidin entered the U.S. market under conditional registration in 2003, and in 2004
corn seed companies began marketing seeds treated with a 5X level of neonicotinoids
(1.25 mg/seed vs. .25).
... and in the space of a decade, U.S. corn acreage undergoes a ten-fold increase in average
insecticide use. By 2007, the average acre of corn has more than three systemic insecticides —
.... It is by now common knowledge that conventional corn farmers have a very hard time finding seed that is not genetically engineered and treated with neonicotinoids.
www.panna.org...
Kali74
reply to post by burntheships
I'm not spinning it ffs.
What GMO crops do not use Neonics?
Kali74
reply to post by burntheships
neonicotinoids are also used on non-GM crops so a correlation can't be made
Link
U.S. food processors are wary of consumer reaction to products containing genetically modified (GM) wheat, so no GM wheat is commercially grown in the United States.
talklikeapirat
reply to post by burntheships
It's complicated, but MON810, the only approved BT corn in the EU has never been grown in Italy, not even in field trials. Offically it has been banned in Italy since July, but the decision is not backed by EU regulations and is under review by the courts in Brussels.
NiteNGale2
A common example of a non-GMO crop that uses neonicotinoid pesticides:
USA grown wheat
BARI, Italy—An acre of farmland in northeastern Italy is at the center of a national debate.
Giorgio Fidenato, head of the Italian Federated Farmers, feels strongly about the right to grow genetically modified organisms (GMOs), prompting him to plant Monsanto’s GM corn strain Mon810 amid much protest.
Fidenato took advantage of the European Union’s decision in September 2012 to deny Italy the right to stop cultivation of Mon810. It was the only GMO permitted in the country, but Italy required cultivators to have a government-issued permit for its growth.
In 2010, Fidenato had engaged in an act of civil disobedience and planted Mon810 without a permit. His applications had been repeatedly rejected. Greenpeace activists pulled up the plants before they could contaminate surrounding fields. Fidenato was fined 25,000 euro ($32,500) for the illegal cultivation. Greenpeace activists were fined 86,250 euro ($112,350) for trespassing on agricultural land.
He planted his field in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region with even more gusto this June, having the backing of the EU decision. On July 12, however, Italy took a hardline stance against Mon810
Why did you answer the question about non GM crops and neonics
with an answer that is about GMO crops???
burntheships
reply to post by burntheships
Name them ( those in Italy, that is )
Phage
All of the crops in Italy are grown without neonicotinoid seed treatment (due to the ban).
Phage
Name a crop grown in Italy.
All of the crops in Italy are grown without neonicotinoid seed treatment (due to the ban).
editby]edit on 10/28/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)