... food fall into three categories: environmental hazards, human health risks, and economic concerns. Environmentalists are concerned about a published report showing that pollen from B.t. corn caused high mortality rates in monarch butterfly caterpillars. Even though monarch caterpillars consume milkweed plants, not corn, the concern is that pollen from the B.t. corn is blown by the wind onto the milkweed and caterpillars would eat ... lately. European environmental organizations and public interest groups have been actively protesting against GM foods for months. Recent controversial stu...

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... 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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... issue. Environmentally, the most common concerns have to do with the unintended effects on insect populations, like the well-known example of the effects Bt corn pollen has on monarch butterfly larvae. Other environmentalists are concerned with the potential detrimental effects GM crops could have on the environment, like the potential for increased herbicide usage or long-lived residues in the ... ...

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... , reports emerged saying that pollen from genetically modified corn had been killing monarch caterpillars. The media jumped on this story and incited public outrage over the killing of the monarch butterfly which everyone loves. A report came out later however, proving that the caterpillars did not die as a result of eating contaminated pollen, but the media decided not to run with that ... ...

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