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Serious: Monsanto GMOs Continue to Devastate Butterfly Population
It isn’t easy to correlate a gun being pointed at your head with the lilting beauty of a monarch colony, rising into the pine-scented sky from the Sierra Madres to head south to Mexico. But these monarch butterflies, dining on milkweed, once prevalent in the Midwest, are now being all but eradicated due to Monsanto’s GMO creations and pesticide. Monarch colonies in the United States are now close to extinction. We can thank over a million acres of Bt corn and soy for that, and of course, the Bio Tech Giants, including Monsanto. But this is what is happening. First the bees. Then the butterflies. Then us.
Monarchs pollinate an estimated 75% of all food crops. They are the only known species to make a two-way migration – all for Asclepias L. There were once over 60 million butterflies that made the migration to the US from Mexico so that their young could dine on milkweed, a ‘trash plant’ that the butterflies adapted to their diets over millennia – the only plant that their larvae will eat. Now these numbers are fatally low – correlating to the over 80% decline in the presence of milkweed in the US.
Read More : www.newssum.com/serious-monsanto-gmos-continue-to-devastate-butterfly-population-3764
