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Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] GM contaminated honey
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:17:57 -0500
From: Steve Gilman <stevegilman@VERIZON.NET>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
Hi All,
Even though corn plants propagate among themselves through anamophily
(literally, "wind love") and don't require bees for pollination, corn is
a major insectary plant as its pollen is a prodigious protein food
source for a wide range of beneficial insects, valuable to farmers and
gardeners alike. Studies by entomologists Robert Bugg and others further
document that beneficials such as ladybugs, lacewings, wasps, minute
pirate bug, etc. also feed on the nectar from annual and perennial
flowering plants for carbohydrates.
Insectary plants also provide high quality room along with board, as
they provide protective habitat and shelter for insect instar growth
stages and reproduction. As an added bonus many of these beneficials
serve as effective wild pollinators -- increasingly important as Colony
Collapse Disorder and other honeybee maladies take their toll.
So, when you throw these (proprietary) laboratory-created transgenes
willy-nilly into the foodweb (for profit) -- there's substantial
wide-ranging ecological effects up and down the line. And since those
transgenes express in every part of the corn (soybean, canola, cotton,
alfalfa, sugarbeets, etc) plant, including the kernels, leaves, stems,
roots -- and root exudates -- then you're also contaminating the vast
soil foodweb -- the very basis of our existence. Now THAT'S insanity!!