Study ties GMO corn, soybeans to butterfly losses

[Mona Miller]

http://www.startribune.com/local/143017 ... y#continue
Study ties GMO corn, soybeans to butterfly losses
Herbicide-resistant crops can withstand Roundup, which kills monarchs' preferred nesting plant.

[Paul Cherubini]

Article contradicts itself. On the one hand it says: "Butterflies were not flocking to breed on plants outside agricultural fields; those numbers remained the same." I agree with that statement and my videos prove that milkweed and monarchs do indeed continue to be abundant along the margins of the GMO crop fields: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owV6o6xNWM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKmDId55pfc

But then the article says: "The scale of the loss of habitat is so big that unless we compensate for it in some way, the population will decline to the point where it will disappear," he [Chip Taylor] said.

Obviously you can't have it both ways; i.e. you can't claim "butterfly numbers outside agricultural fields remained the same between 1999-2010" and then turn around and say: "The scale of the loss of habitat is so big that unless we compensate for it in some way, the population will decline to the point where it will disappear".

[Mona Miller]

Folks, read the article for yourself. Paul's data can't be trusted. His videos and pictures can't be trusted either. Paul's agenda is the promotion of the pesticide/herbicide industry.

[Paul Cherubini]

Folks, read the article for yourself. Paul's data can't be trusted. His videos and pictures can't be trusted either. Paul's agenda is the promotion of the pesticide/herbicide industry.

The article itself claimed: "butterfly numbers remained the same on plants [milkweeds] outside of the agricultural fields." My videos confirm that statement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owV6o6xNWM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKmDId55pfc Thus, if there was ever a public forum in which Monsanto asked the authors of the study and Chip Taylor: Are monarch numbers outside of the agricultural fields in Minnesota (i.e. along the roadsides and ditches bordering the GMO crops) still high? And they would answer: Yes. Plus Monsanto could hire dozens of independent photographers to take the same videos I have if they wanted to. Or finance bus loads of school teachers and children to go out to the roadsides and ditches to photograph and/or collect the abundant monarch caterpillars and frogs. So I don't see what you hope to gain by continually claiming "Paul's videos and pictures can't be trusted." All that may accomplish is to delay the truth out getting out to the public.

[Mona Miller]

The truth according to Paul is not the whole truth.

[blazing star]

Paul, you sure do seem to know a lot about Monsanto's practices. Wonder why?