Disadvantages:
1. We don't eat cotton or cotton products (cotton seed meal, while high in protein, is toxic); therefore, there are no potential human health disadvantages.
2. Ecologically it may be problematic, as we still don't have a feel for how inserting this Bt gene into the cotton gene pool is going to affect weedy relatives, or the diversity of our cotton crop.
3. Also, it affects all larval insects, so if there are any beneficial caterpillars in the area they will be killed too.
Let this be a warning to all cute moths and butterflies! ;)
4. Economic: Finally, there is concern that Monsanto and other companies who own these technologies, will put the cost of these special crop seeds out of the price range of developing countries, who may need this technology even more than anyone else to protect already-polluted groundwater, environment, etc. Agriculture is usually low-tech, and accessible to poor people, but these patented technologies are expensive and exclusive. Monsanto and other SAY they will share, but we know that money is always their bottom line.
Disadvantages: 1. We don't eat cotton or cotton products (cotton seed meal, while high in protein, is toxic); therefore, there are no potential human health disadvantages. 2. Ecologically it may be problematic, as we still don't have a feel for how inserting this Bt gene into the cotton gene pool is going to affect weedy relatives, or the diversity of our cotton crop. 3. Also, it affects all larval insects, so if there are any beneficial caterpillars in the area they will be killed too. Let this be a warning to all cute moths and butterflies! ;) 4. Economic: Finally, there is concern that Monsanto and other companies who own these technologies, will put the cost of these special crop seeds out of the price range of developing countries, who may need this technology even more than anyone else to protect already-polluted groundwater, environment, etc. Agriculture is usually low-tech, and accessible to poor people, but these patented technologies are expensive and exclusive. Monsanto and other SAY they will share, but we know that money is always their bottom line.
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