GM Toxic Pollen Kills Monarchs - Cornell University

[blazing star]

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Ma ... s.bpf.html

A small excerpt:

"An increasingly popular commercial corn, genetically engineered to produce a bacterial toxin to protect against corn pests, has an unwanted side effect: Its pollen kills monarch butterfly larvae in laboratory tests, according to a report by Cornell University researchers."

[Paul Cherubini]

http://www.pnas.org/content/98/21/11937.abstract
"This 2-year study suggests that the impact of Bt corn pollen from current commercial hybrids on monarch butterfly populations is negligible."