The problem with pest resistant corn is that they are making the plant produce the pesticide which you ingest when you eat it. They also have made corn much less healthy as they chase the sugar portion. Watch Food, Inc. and Corn, Inc. They may be from a liberal funding, but the facts presented will change your thinking on GMO.
The problem with pest resistant corn is that they are making the plant produce the pesticide which you ingest when you eat it.
That is completely false.
They are simply “removing” a very specific piece of the plants genome that allowed the PEST to take hold.
They are NOT creating a pesticide that KILLS the PEST !!!
They are making the PEST unable to affect the plant.
Don’t buy that websites BS.
I assume you are talking about the Bt corn. In that case, Bt is a protein produced by a soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, which naturally gets onto plants and which you already eat whenever you eat plants grown in soil.
The pesticide itself is very specific to certain kinds of insects. It is a protein that is inactive in acidic vertebrate guts, but in insect guts, which are caustic, the protein changes shape and becomes able to attach to insect gut cells. This causes the cells to not stick to each other very well, which allows the contents of insect digestive systems to escape into the abdomen, killing the insects.
In vertebrates, however, the protein is digested just like any other protein.