Um... please explain the mechanism by which "GMO products" cause harm to bees or any other beneficial form of life? And please explain how GMO organisms produced by modern targeted forms of gene insertion/deletion/alteration are worse than the old methods of gene modification which involved indiscriminate gene breakage, random mixing of genes from different organisms, and propagation of obvious genetic mutants?
I get annoyed to see all the anti-GMO hysteria. It consists of a lot of emotionally driven fear-mongering tempered by very little fact and no data.
The only GMO I can think of that *might* be toxic to bees would be the insertion of the Cry gene from Bacillis thuringiensis. That would be no more and no less toxic than the widespread application of live B. thuringiensis to crops. However, a quick perusal of the scientific literature reveals that the Cry toxins are very specific to certain insect species--which do not include honeybees.
And I would like to see impartial data - impartial being the operative word- guaranteeing the safety of GMO and GEO organics.
I’m not a scientist - not even a college graduate, but it seems to me that altering food sources in such a way that they are able to tolerate over spraying with Roundup should at least be questionable. I certainly don’t want to ingest it.
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What happens if weeds develop resistance to Roundup? Will farmers have to resort to stronger herbicides, say, in the way stronger antibiotics are needed to treat antibiotic resistant infections in humans?
What pollinates those crops which have been over sprayed? Where does the pollen go that is collected by those insects to bring into the hive as protein to feed to their young?
Some of it may wind up in my hives, in my honey.