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Report: Nature May Soon Overcome Monsanto as ‘Super Rootworms’ Destroy Crops
Natural Society / News Report
Published: Friday 29 June 2012
Amazingly, western corn rootworms have virtually no problem gobbling up Monsanto’s modified maize crop, as they have developed a serious resistance to the very crops designed to kill them.
What will be the end of Monsanto? Could it be lawsuits, new legislation, or perhaps even a tiny insect that is less than 0.10 mm in length. A new report reveals that rootworms may ultimately be what ends Monsanto’s crops, despite the biotech giant’s rampant success within the United States legislative system. Amazingly, western corn rootworms have virtually no problem gobbling up Monsanto’s modified maize crop, as they have developed a serious resistance to the very crops designed to kill them. So much so that these little critters are outpacing Monsanto’s top scientists.
To make matters worse for the company, the resistant rootworms are maturing earlier than expected this year. And with the enhanced growth has come enhanced birth rates, with the bug’s larvae hatching the earliest in decades. Monsanto, of course, is absolutely defenseless against the resistant rootworms which have adapted to their biopesticide known as Bt. At least 8 populations of insects have developed resistance, with 2 populations resistant to Bt sprays and at least 6 species resistant to Bt crops as a whole. The answer? Use even more intelligence-crushing pesticides.
Rootworms, Nature Overcome Monsanto’s GMO Crops
It is for this reason that the EPA has warned in the past that Monsanto’s crops will soon be ravaged by the insects. In their report on the subject, the EPA states:
“Monsanto’s program for monitoring suspected cases of resistance is ‘inadequate’”.
The statements have been reinforced by another group of concerned scientists. A body of 22 academic corn experts voiced serious concerns over GMO crop failures back in March, warning that a collapse of the GMO corn industry may soon follow — a particularly mighty prediction when considering that 94 percent of the US supply is currently of the genetically modified variety. It is also important to consider that much of the corn is not used for food, but for biodiesel purposes.
Will nature adapt to Monsanto’s genetically modified creations and lead to their downfall in the end? Time and time again researchers and agricultural professionals have been calling upon Monsanto and the United States government to return to traditional and sustainable farming practices — even citing the fact that Monsanto’s GMOs produce even less yield. Instead, the modified crops have overtaken much of the food supply. Now, in the face of collapse, the only answer provided by Monsanto is to drench crops in even more pesticides and modify their genetic coding to an even greater degree.
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11 comments on "Report: Nature May Soon Overcome Monsanto as ‘Super Rootworms’ Destroy Crops "
May 14, 2013 2:40pm
OMG! I'm concerned that some unenlightened anti-monsantoists will find a way to acquire a few of these super-bugs and begin super-bug farms. They don't need much imagination--earthworm farmers have paved the way. No doubt, they will start a super-bug blackmarket and spread super-bug farms across the Monsanto
corn-growing belt. Then, no doubt, these super-bug farmers will begin releasing their bugs into the cornfields as they drive along the roads under cover of darkness. And as Monsanto--god love them for wanting to improve crops--produces more gmo varieties, these bug-farmers will be right behind them.
How can our government use our tax dollars most effectively to sponsor more research at our public universities to deal with these super-bug farmer products?
How can our federal agencies develop more federal regulations to deal with this potential crisis before it happens?
How can our Monsanto friendly Supreme Court mobilize itself to make more Monsanto-friendly decisions to stem this super-bug farmer tide? They will be delivering super-bugs via balloons. We'll need to enlist the congressional-industrial-military complex to fund, build and deploy more armed drones to monitor the roads and the skies against this threat from the people.
July 07, 2012 3:48pm
Hmmm, sounds like our fore-farmers in the pre-insecticide era knew a damned lot more than we give them credit for. Crop rotations worked great as did crop spacing. The buggers would hatch and would not have a thing to eat. Those few that could get to the food, lived. And when you would have a 7 year rotation, many things benefited. Now the rotation is corn, soybeans and that is it. Chemicals will give the same benefits as rotation. Better living through chemistry.
And don't forget kiddies, Uncle Sam and his Big Agra friends know everything there is to know about farming. Do as he says, small developing nation friends. Big Agra needs more profits. What you have been doing for centuries if not thousands of years is all wrong.
Can we get a worldwide middle finger salute to Big Agra going?
July 01, 2012 10:23am
So these super bugs can eat non gmo corn as well, right? And these bugs will probably spread around the country, right? Thanks Monsanto we needed that.
July 01, 2012 9:06am
So here's the plan: take a food - corn - and make EVERY SINGLE CELL POISONOUS. Right, a food that will cause health damage and is proven by monsanto's own "science to kill liver and kidney cells.
So what is the upside? Oh yeah! Invest in Monsanto so that when they control the entire food chain, you can make everyone jump!.
June 29, 2012 11:37pm
Good article on the GMO issue, but I have a question on one line in the 2nd from last paragraph. You say...."It is also important to consider that much of the corn is not used for food, but for biodiesel purposes...".
Really?
Surely, you mean Ethanol. If so, that is a different fuel than biodiesel.
While we are on the subject, isn't most of the corn used as animal feed?
On a related issue, I would think Soy (high % of crop is GMO also) would be more used for Biodiesel production. However, from what I hear that has gone over to Canola, waste oils, recycled oils, and Palm oil...with alternative sources like Jatropa and Algae coming on line. This seems to be highly dependant on region and country. it is an evolving industry (unlike Ethanol which is more established...and moving toward different non-corn processes (mostly outside the US) like switch grasses etc,
June 29, 2012 6:04pm
“Monsanto’s program for monitoring suspected cases of resistance is ‘inadequate’”. How about pernicious lies by a corporation only interested in making a profit and who doesn't care if it kills millions of people?
Anyway, we can only hope that if our government won't take care of its citizens, Mother Nature will do what it is programmed to do...protect itself and maybe take down a monster in the process.
I have to agree with Mycophile, but the above statement from the FDA at least gives me a little hope and their are many citizens who are out there fighting!
June 29, 2012 5:39pm
Monsanto fits perfectly the profile of a sociopath.
June 29, 2012 2:00pm
don't start counting the chickens yet. Monsanto et al of course anticipated this kind of thing. It is part of a biz plan -- they have been developing even more risky things to bring online in order to "fix" the crises that they knew the widespread and heavy use of their products would create, and are already asking (in the name of agricultural emergency) for fast-track approval processes to be codified that bypass even the formerly-deemed-adequate product safety reviews. Get ready for re-incarnations of dioxins and monstrous forms of dicambra. Get ready for other things only the imaginations of anti-socials and maniacs could not see as abominations on the face of the planet.
June 29, 2012 12:18pm
Score one for evolution. Looks like the insect pests will manage to defeat Monsanto on bt toxin. What would it take for the weeds to defeat Roundup ready what-have-you crops.
July 07, 2012 3:36pm
There's evidence of Roundup resistant weeds too. Evolution in action, except in Texas where God is tweeking the plants and insects.
I am not sure if you were aware that BT is also approved as an" organic" farm allowed insectide. I am sure that sped up the evolutionary process.
June 29, 2012 11:58am
If ever there was proof of Darwin's theories, it's Monsanto speeding up the evolution of superbugs by wiping out most of them and letting the stronger ones survive. Monsanto has been dominating the corn and soybean seed markets for 20-30 years, and apparently it only takes that many generations to develop new and hardier pests. Unfortunately, human generations are 20-30 years each, so the bugs have us at a disadvantage...