1. Bioegineered Food and Nutrition
... with the plants. One study found in the Journal of Environmental Health was conducted in a lab. The study showed that the pollen from genetically modified corn was killing the monarch butterfly larvae. The lab is not a farm field and the larvae were consuming much higher doses of the BT toxin then they would receive in the outside world. Researches went out ... into the field and started measuring how much pollen drifts onto milkweed and determining the exposure of butterfly and moth larvae to the protein. According to Scientific American The EPA estimates that the larvae face no observ...
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