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GM CROPS ARE NOW THREATENING NATURAL FLORA DIVERSITY From 2005: GM study shows potential 'harm' to environment Final
tests of genetically modified crops grown in the UK have shown to have
significant damage to the environment and
wildlife. Scientists also say that the effects of GM damage could linger
in fields indefinitely. The tests have shown to dramatically reduce the
growth of wild flowers (called weeds) which are home to insects and therefore
food for birds. From 2002: British government try to bury devastaing news about GM tests. GM crops are breeding with plants in the wild. Alarming results from official trials of GM crops in Britain are severely jeopardising Government plans for growing them commercially. Over the 2002 Christmas celebrations a story, which could prove significant for the future of geneticaly modified crops was buried in the pages of little viewed web site. The
results, in a new British
Government report, show for the first time that GM crops are interbreeding
on a large scale with conventional crops. But it doesn't stop there.
It's also been found that GM crops are effecting wild flowers. Contrary to governments reassurance that GM crops would not cross-pollinate with the planets natural wild plant diversity, scientists have found DNA from genetically modified crops in wild maize growing on remote mountains in Mexico, 100 kilometres from the nearest industrially farmed GM crops. The authors of the study, say they found the results hard to believe. However they saw them verified by a Mexican Government follow up that some of the wild samples were contaminated with telltale sections of DNA from GM crops. Predictably arrogant in their response, pro GM associations say that although the findings are "a good piece of research" … "it contained no real surprises". Monarch Butterfly under serious threat from GM Crops A new and additional threat faces the monarch butterfly during their migration to North America. Pollen from gene altered corn appears to be killing the butterflies. Milkweed grows in abundance amongst and around the corn. Pollen from the corn lands on the Milkweed, which is a favorite food of the Monarch. One in five monarch larvae are known to be dying after being exposed to the toxic corn pollen.
This article last updated or added to in: March 2005
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