Why do environmental advocates still claim that Bt corn pollen harms Monarch butterflies?

Question

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/btcorn/

Answer 1

There will always be the Chicken Littles in life.  

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I always check to see who commissioned a study and their biases before I read any study.  All sides of any issue want to have their view portrayed positively.  But that fact does not necessarily make them wrong.

Answer 2

Because the only research that says otherwise was sponsored by a group of biotech companies?

From your link:

"The Agricultural Biotechnology Stewardship Technical Committee (ABSTC) each contributed $100,000 to a grant pool to fund research. ABSTC is a consortium of agricultural biotechnology companies and associations including Aventis CropScience, American Crop Protection Association, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto, Novartis Seeds, and Pioneer Hi-Bred International."

Not saying the research is necessarily tainted, but still there have only been two studies done, so the pool of research from which to draw a conclusion is very limited and may be skewed by special interest groups.

I don't know any environmentalists that think the monarch butterfly issue is the only or even a large issue when it comes to GM crops.

Answer 3

Because Environmentalist have nothing better to do with their lives. It is actually a power play to create a so called Utopian social engineered world....Well it doesn't work that way.

These same morons cry and scream when the cost of corn rises or if there are worldwide shortages. But use a modified corn, a pesticide on the corn then they scream. It is the same morons that complain and sue if anyone wants o build a new power plant, then scream bloody murder that the evil capitalist are ruining their world when the price of electricity goes up.

You cannot have it both ways. If you like to drive cars, eat inexpensive food or have a nice light...then shut up. Or get rid of it and live naked in the woods...by the way you can't eat anything or drink anything, because you will be disturbing the environment. Unless of course you eat your own waste...that's recycling.

All I have to say to the environmentalist, is if they don't like our world, then they should place the barrel of a shotgun firmly to their forehead, and squeeze the trigger.