Monsanto and its mad scientists assholes admit their GM cotton is a failure.

[JohnyCanuck]

Monsanto admits their technology doesn’t work!

Reyes, one of our agriculture campaigners in India, shares her immediate thoughts on this 'first-of-its-kind' admission by Monsanto

This was my Saturday's lyrics to breakfast in sunny Bangalore: Monsanto has decided to tell the truth about something: its technology doesn't work!, reports The Hindu. I'm going to need a second cup of chai to digest this, Monsanto speaking honest!? Indian farmers and scientist have been seeing this in their Bt cotton fields for a few years: pests become resistant to Monsanto's genetically engineered toxins and thus farmers apply huge amounts of pesticides. Monsanto has always denied this, has the recent massive rejection of its Bt brinjal in India woken up its senses?

For years Monsanto has been shouting that the main - read only - benefit of Bt cotton in India (the only genetically engineered crop planted here) was the reduction in pesticide use. Well, it seems they have just admitted this is not true. Pink bollworm, a serious pest for cotton farmers in India, is now resistant to the toxin in Bt cotton. Meaning that this bug is now sort of a super-pest that farmers will have to work harder and harder to avoid.

What is Monsanto's solution to this? Maybe you have guessed it: use Monsanto's next weapon – same technology - Bt cotton 2.0. With double the amount of toxins (and almost double the price of non-Bt seeds). Hmmm? I need another cup of chai! This is looking too much like an arms-race, which due to rapid pest evolution of resistance could reach a battle of infinite proportions... followed closely by Monsanto's profits, of course. Indigestible! -my stomach shouts-, because along with Monsanto's profits from selling their special seeds I see also the struggle of debt and the threats to the livelihoods of the many farmers I've met.


Bt cotton troubles don't end here. A few weeks ago, a pro-GE scientist from the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) in Nagpur, Dr. Kranthi, spoke about other 'wonders' of Bt cotton. According to Dr. Kranthi, Bt cotton has increased, yes increased, the use of dangerous pesticides and now other ferocious pests, like mealybug (never seen before by Indian farmers), are destroying the harvests. Wonderful! Monsanto makes money and the farmers risk huge debts and family health from the massive use of pesticides. My breakfast is tasting very bitter this morning.

http://www.datensatz.de/monsanto-admits-their-technology-doesnt-work.html

[jwirr]

1. And how much damage did it cause to the worlds cotton farmers? nt

[HeresyLives]

2. 'Mad scientists'???

You mean what the climate deniers call them???

[hedgehog]

3. Organic farmers apply Bt to their fields only when they see too

many pests. The idea is to avoid long term exposure that would allow pests to develop resistance.

[ixion]

4. and thanks a pantload, Monsanto, for releasing that crap into the eco-system

and destroying the family farm in the process. Way to go. :grr:

[SPedigrees]

6. And thanks for poisoning our food supply here at home with HFCS

and all your other GM corn products and carcinogenic artificial sweeteners.

[OrderedChaos]

5. Not only is it not resistant to the pests,

the farmers used to let their goats/ sheep graze on the cotton plants after harvest, but the GM Bt cotton plants, with their built in pesticide, killed some of the animals that grazed off of them too.

[HeresyLives]

7. You guys realize Monsanto has competitors, eh?

You'd think Monsanto is the only company in the world doing GM food, the way people go after them on here.