[Leps-l] [leps-talk] Monarch Armageddon

[Paul Cherubini]

On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:00 PM, MexicoDoug wrote:

>  I added the search term "Armageddon" for fun.

Doug, it was Lincoln Brower who first set the precedent
for using the word "Armageddon" in this article and others like it:
http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/july2011/GMcropsmonarchbutterflieshabitat.php

In the article Lincoln said this about Roundup herbicide use
in the GMO crops of the upper Midwest:

“It kills everything. It’s biodiversity Armageddon,"

And Lincoln and Chip Taylor collaborated on a paper
and wrote:  "We conclude that, because of the extensive 
use of glyphosate herbicide on crops that are genetically 
modified to resist the herbicide, milkweeds will disappear 
almost completely from croplands."

But the critically important information they don't mention
in their paper is that the field margins of these Roundup
treated GMO crops are teaming with bumblebees, honeybees,
monarchs and butterflies like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZCOJnJU1UE

So those GMO croplands are not hardly a legitimate 
example of  "Biodiversity Armageddon"

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.