<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/worm-now-thrives-gmo-corn-designed-kill-it-study-says-232276">http://www.newsweek.com/worm-now-thrives-gmo-corn-designed-kill-it-study-says-232276</a><br><br><div class="" dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de3435b5-d66c-2757-475c-53966959bbf9">One
of industrial agriculture’s biggest GMO crops may have just backfired.
Scientists have confirmed that corn-destroying rootworms have evolved to
be resistant to the Bt corn engineered to kill them. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-de3435b5-d66c-2757-475c-53966959bbf9">Bt stands for </span><a href="http://www2.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef130.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bacillus thuringiensis</a>,
the name of the genetically modified corn’s “donor” organism. Bacillus
thuringiensis is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces
protein crystals that bind to certain receptors in the rootworm’s
intestine, killing it. For years, farmers have planted Bt corn as an
alternative to spraying insecticides. Bt corn accounted for <a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption.aspx#.Uyho3vldVhx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">three-quarters</a> of all corn planting in 2013. That may have to change.</div><br><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);"><font style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">===============================</span><br>Chuck Palazzo<br>Agent Orange Action Group</span><br>http://aoag.org/<br><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;">Chapter 160, </span></font><font style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span
style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><font style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;">Hoa Binh, </span></font>Veterans For Peace</span><br>http://vfp-vn.ning.com/</font><font size="1"><font class="yui_3_2_0_2_133065404731860" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><br></font></font><span class="yiv118013358"></span><br><font size="1"><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2">chuck_pal@yahoo.com<br>================================</font></font></div><div><span><br></span></div></div></body></html>