... the targeted species, disrupting the natural food chain ("Food-). In 1999 a laboratory study was published in the magazine Nature showing that pollen from B.t. corn caused high mortality rates in monarch butterfly caterpillars. Monarch caterpillars consume milkweed plants, not corn, but the fear is that if pollen from B.t. corn is blown by the wind onto milkweed plants in neighboring fields, the caterpillars ... ...

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