Does Bt pollen spread?
Brian Sandle
bsandle at southern.co.nz
Thu May 27 11:44:38 EDT 1999
Paul Cherubini <paulcher at concentric.net> wrote:
: SueJensen wrote:
:> Excuse me?? 'Round-up Ready' soy and rapeseed don't sound to me like
:> products designed to reduce conventional pesticide use.
: You're right, Roudup herbicide use within the corn (and other) crops is
: likely to go up.
: But Roundup herbicide is not a bug killer and does not poison the soil
: or water.
Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 1996 Feb;56(2):295-302
Biochemical and histopathological effects of glyphosate on carp, Cyprinus
carpio L.
[...]
Literature of toxicological and ecotoxicological properties
of glyphosate is extremely sparse, considering its importance as
herbicide.
[...]
J Environ Sci Health B 1995 Jul;30(4):513-34
Toxic effects of carbofuran and glyphosate on semen characteristics in
rabbits.
[...]
These effects on sperm
quality may be due to the direct cytotoxic effects of these pesticides
on spermatogenesis and/or indirectly via hypothalami-pituitary-testis
axis which control the reproductive efficiency.
[...]
:> If you work in this area, Paul, why don't you go for a career change?
: Well I may have to because these genetically modified crops will result
: in big reductions in the use of conventional insecticides I sell.
Or else as resistance builds you may end up selling a whole lot more.
Maybe
: God might spare me a few hundred years in hell if I changed careers and
: did something good for bugs instead of killing them. Like raise
: butterflies for a living. But wait! How many people on this list think
: its OK to raise and release common butterflies like monarchs and painted
: ladies for a living?
: Maybe if I just went and got a decent government job, wrote butterfly
: books, became an environmental defense lawyer or went around begging for
: grants to make a living I would somehow be environmentally "pure" in
: everyones eyes?
Eco tourism has been a rising industry.
I hear you in a few years going around with tail between legs telling
people that if only we had stuck to conventional pesticides used in the
proper way that....
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