courtney (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} keepkeepkeep) wrote,@ 2008-01-13 12:20:00 |
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The concerns about transgenics have sparked a worldwide struggle that reaches far beyong the rice of the Great Lakes region. In September 2001, the Mexican government made a public announcement that transgenic sequences of genetically engineered corn had contaminated indigenous corn varieties, in violation of a law banning the importation of genetically modified maize. The Indigenous communities of Oaxaca had wanted to certify that their corn was being produced free of genetic engineering, and instead learned through the certification process that their corn indeed tested positive for transgenic sequences. Fears increased as reports stated that the probably containment was a Bt gene. Engineered for its insecticide properties, Bt inadvertently poisions milkweek, the food of monarch butterflies, a migrant species that winters in Mexico. - Winona LaDuke, Recovering the Sacred, 'Wild Rice'
also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenic_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenic_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
