Post by toni on Aug 3, 2008 9:58:14 GMT -5
Real facts of GMO. I've posted similar in the past. California's courts are full of farmers trying to sue because this is happening to their organic crops. Now since pollen is contaminating other crops...what's it doing to the wild (our water, our air, our everything).
GMO/GEO genetically modified/genetically engineered pollen causing cross contamination (from it blowing in the wind)
www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218391155&cat=2_3
Adding fuel to the fire
The Iowa study follows another controversial study by scientists at Cornell University published in May 1999 in the journal Nature. It was in the Cornell study that researchers announced that Monarch butterfly caterpillars died from eating milkweed leaves dusted with Bt corn pollen. But the study was criticized because it took place entirely in the laboratory, not the field, so it may not have taken into account how much pollen the caterpillars would have actually been exposed to.
www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218391155&cat=2_3
“Say your contract is for GMO [genetically modified organism]-free seed, and you find there was considerable risk of out-crossing during pollination. Then you have time to decide where to sell that crop, perhaps for animal feed,” Westgate says.
farmindustrynews.com/mag/farming_pollen_tracker/
Because Mr. Ballarin's crop was genetically contaminated, it no longer
qualified as "organically grown," so it no longer brought a premium price.
www.organicconsumers.org/ge/gedrift011006.cfm
This AIGM programme brings together researchers and other scientists from 10 European countries involved in assessing the environmental and agronomic impact of GM crops, including studies of gene flow and dispersal through pollen, hybridisation and gene introgression
www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/Pollen-Transfer-Gene-FlowEEAMar02.htm
GMO pollen movement caused by the wind.
www.pgeconomics.co.uk/pdf/Maizepollennov2004final.pdf
GMO/GEO genetically modified/genetically engineered pollen causing cross contamination (from it blowing in the wind)
www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218391155&cat=2_3
Adding fuel to the fire
The Iowa study follows another controversial study by scientists at Cornell University published in May 1999 in the journal Nature. It was in the Cornell study that researchers announced that Monarch butterfly caterpillars died from eating milkweed leaves dusted with Bt corn pollen. But the study was criticized because it took place entirely in the laboratory, not the field, so it may not have taken into account how much pollen the caterpillars would have actually been exposed to.
www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218391155&cat=2_3
“Say your contract is for GMO [genetically modified organism]-free seed, and you find there was considerable risk of out-crossing during pollination. Then you have time to decide where to sell that crop, perhaps for animal feed,” Westgate says.
farmindustrynews.com/mag/farming_pollen_tracker/
Because Mr. Ballarin's crop was genetically contaminated, it no longer
qualified as "organically grown," so it no longer brought a premium price.
www.organicconsumers.org/ge/gedrift011006.cfm
This AIGM programme brings together researchers and other scientists from 10 European countries involved in assessing the environmental and agronomic impact of GM crops, including studies of gene flow and dispersal through pollen, hybridisation and gene introgression
www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/Pollen-Transfer-Gene-FlowEEAMar02.htm
GMO pollen movement caused by the wind.
www.pgeconomics.co.uk/pdf/Maizepollennov2004final.pdf