Tech | January 05, 2012 | 15 comments

Monsanto's drought resistant BT corn is a FAILURE- no more effective than non GMO

source: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_24591.cfm

JanforGore
Failed "Drought Tolerant" GMO Corn Won't Help Farmers!
The US Department of Agriculture's review of Monsanto's own data shows that years of investment into so-called "drought-tolerant" biotech crops have been nothing more than a risky and very expensive failure. Monsanto's new "drought-tolerant" genetically-modified corn variety MON 87460 does not perform any better than non-GMO varieties.

Ignoring the data, on December 21, 2012, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it would allow unlimited planting of MON 87460. The company and the USDA have both admitted the crop will fare only modestly better than current conventional varieties under low- and moderate-level drought conditions. This means that this corn will be useful only for a fraction of corn acres – just 15 percent by USDA estimates.

In addition, in the United States and abroad there are several types of new, drought-tolerant corn, grown through natural breeding techniques that are likely to do as well or better than Monsanto’s corn. Data from U.S. researchers suggest that conventional breeding is producing drought tolerance two to three times faster than genetic engineering.

Only traditional breeding methods, coupled with agricultural methods that promote soil health, have proven capable of increasing stress tolerance and making plants more resilient to reduced water availability.

The danger is, now that MON 87460 has been deregulated, it will inevitably contaminate truly resilient varieties of organic and conventional corn, destroying the rich genetic diversity that the world's farmers have cultivated in the planet's infinitely varied micro-climates.

Please protect biological diversity by taking action to stop Monsanto's failed "drought-resistant" GMO corn.

To learn more about how genetic diversity -- not genetic engineering -- is the key to climate adaptation, watch this video:

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15 comments // Monsanto's drought resistant BT corn is a FAILURE- no more effective than non GMO // Video

  • artemis6
  • coolplanet
  • JanforGore
    • +1
      JanforGore  
    • coolplanet:

      Nature is truly amazing. Biodiversity is life and in a world of climate change an absolute necessity. This was interesting. Thank you. I'm going to try to grow something this spring.

    • 5 months ago
  • ecoalex
    • +3
      ecoalex  

    • Strike 3 for Monsanto.Remember golden rice? It was supposed to have elevated Vitamin A,it didn't.Many Indian farmers committed suicide because it died because it didn't have fungal disease resistance the local rice had.The same with BT cotton.tens of thousands of Indian farmers have committed suicide for BT cotton crop failures.Also cattle that ate the cotton fodder died. RR corn,soy, canola, sugar beets,and alfalfa? all will,or have already super weeds resistant to massive doses of round-up.BT corn is a bust,due to corn root worm resistance to the BT bacterium.Like Golden Rice the drought gene inserted into corn germ plasm ,is another bust from the gene splicers.All these gene spliced crops cause health problems in lab trials to control animals.Allergies sterility,organ damage,mortality.

      Occupy Monsanto!

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
    • +3
      JanforGore  
    • ecoalex:

      It is an outrageous perpetrated hoax upon the world. These herbicides (glyphosate) have been found to toxify waterways, fish, and cause infertility and brain lesions. And these companies now think wheat will be their next target regarding this cross breeding which simply cannot happen if we are to preserve agriculture as we know it. So yes I agree with you that we need to Occupy Monsanto, DOW and Bayer in any way we can. At the supermarket, at their offices, in boycotting and in spreading this information. This is something that will hurt generations to come and is already hurting and killing people now. This government has blood on its hands in supporting the industrial agriculture/military complex.These companies are merely finding other ways to use their war chemicals for profit and the media is silent which again illustrates the total dysfunction of our entire system.Thankfully there are campesino groups, farmers and others working to make seed banks like Dr. Shiva's Navdanya to try to turn this all around and protesting globally in resisitance to this attack on our food system.

    • 5 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • JanforGore
  • coolplanet
    • +1
      coolplanet  

    • No matter how hard he tries man can not improve upon Nature.
      Thanks for adding this to Quetzalcoatl & Tezcatlipoca! This is very relevent to the Mesoamerican myth which holds that modern humans evolved from corn.
      That might sound silly but think about it. Corn (maize) was domesticated around 5,000 years ago in what is now Mexico at the beginning of the Fifth Sun (when the Maya etc say humankind was created anew from corn).
      It is interesting how all of the first grain crops were domesticated from grasses (wheat, rice and corn) around the same time on three seperate continents, leading to the rise of civilizations.
      Makes one wonder.....

      (Note: human domestication of corn, wheat and rice may have begun at the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago according to archaeological finds but did not lead to the advent of civilization until a little over 5,000 years ago.)

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • coolplanet
  • JanforGore
    • +4
      JanforGore  

    • Corporations such as Monsanto are using climate change to make profit from it while leaving more in poverty. This is one reason why corporations and their 1% loving political cronies are doing all in their power to keep the truth of its effects out of the public eye as much as possible.

      Nature has the answers to addressing the effects we are already seeing regarding climate change. Mexico is now seeing its worst drought in 60 years and its tradiitonal corn has already been dessimated by Monsanto's toxic BT corn.

      This is a call to action to tell Obama, Congress and this USDA that we will no longer tolerate their clandestine cronyism in using this planet as a petrie dish and committing biopiracy to take advantage of a crisis we already have real solutions for.

      GMOS ARE USELESS.

    • 24 hours ago
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  
    • JanforGore:

      Love your posts Jan, just that whole "forGore" in your user name.....

      Maybe I'm a little young or radical... But there is a music video by a band Rage Against The Machine.... titled "Testify".... See the video has all these sections of campaign trail speeches from Gore and Bush... Funny thing about it, there are several almost identical quotes, almost as if they were selling the same road to nowhere....

      Then you got the whole bowing out to the Bush crime family, basically saying it's okay to let the supreme court choose candidates for us...

      Mr. Gore just isn't very.... What's the word I'm looking for.... "likable" and it's not just imaginings that he's foul, there is a solid foundation, through his own actions, for not liking him...

      Idk, I know you couldn't change the name and keep the account at this point, and I wouldn't even suggest it....

      Just hard to not be provoked by "forGore" every time I see it, horrible "brand" recognition....

      Idk I pay attention to you though, and have caught you at times going off on everyone in the political establishment, I know you're not a sheeple...

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
    • +2
      JanforGore  
    • Anonmaly:

      Well perhaps I know and see things about the man you don't, and actually I'm kind of tired of taking heat for it or having to explain it. And the name isn't changing anytime soon. I love the man and understand his heart as he has done much to bring awareness and action on environmental matters and try to raise it to a higher consciousness and for that I will always support his goals. I would also say the propaganda about him has seemed to work pretty well, especially with those predisposed to political talk. That being said, he has written in his books and stated in his interviews his support for sustainable agriculture as well, and BTW didn't bow to anyone in 2000 ...that was the American people who bowed. Should he have taken a bullet for you and those who seem so ungrateful that he did fight at all and who now call him "unlikeable?".Now if you don't mind with all due respect I would like to keep this thread on the important topic at hand. Climate change and the challenge of feeding the world because of it I would say is much more important than my name here.

    • 5 months ago
  • coolplanet
    • +1
      coolplanet  
    • Anonmaly:

      Al Gore is adored by millions like me and others outside the fucked-up USofA-hole.
      He will be remembered as the only politician with enough courage and compassion to tackle the big oil beast and tell us the truth about how it is destroying our precious planet.
      I'm thinking of changing my penname to EricForGore just to piss everyone off!

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
    • +3
      JanforGore  
    • coolplanet:

      There are always those who have to dump on the man for actually having the guts to stay in the fight even after all he went through. I say, tough on them. I don't need to give reasons for my love and respect and don't intend to again (if people really care they can read my profile.)They obviously haven't ventured to open his books or understand that he is actually standing up to the oil cartels that are the true criminals here. Perhaps when the world is screwed up truly to the point of no return they will change their tune, but I won't hold my breath.

    • 5 months ago
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