Environmental problems
( see also pesticides problems page
and legal liabilities page )
* American scientists at the US Department of Agirculture have discovered that the use of GM glyphosate resistant crops is stimulating detrimental pathogens in the soil (The Organic & Non-GMO Report, January 2010)
Genetically
modified herbicide-resistant genes from oil seed rape (canola) have be found to have
transfered to weeds in Canada which have then proved to be persistent (StarPhoenix, 19
February 2008)
No pesticide savings for
Bt cotton as growers in China lose money, Newswise, 25 July 2006
Bt Cotton in US fails to improve
biodiversity, Scientific American, 2 May 2006
GM Cotton
Damages Environment In China - Xinhuanet report
Argentina's bitter GM harvest, New Scientist
17 April 2004
Bt
toxin is released in root exudates from 12 transgenic corn hybrids representing three
transformation events Soil Biology & Biochemistry v.34, i.1 Jan02
'Welsh Farmer' - Flaws in GM crop trials - Feb 2002
'GM
volunteer canoloa causes havoc' - Article - Monsanto forced to resort to hand weeding
GM
fields spread new superweeds - Sunday Times
Monsanto gears up for special
chemical mixtures against GM 'superweeds'
Horizontal Gene
Transfer - DNA in the Soil
GM Potatoes
Alter Soil Ecology
New US corn viruses - is GM the prime suspect?
Glyphosate
treated GM soy regime impact on soil micro-organisms
Effect of RR soy regime
on nitrogen fixation
Lethal effects of Bt corn on Monarch Butterfly
First multiple HT GM gene-flow discovered
in UK OSR trials
NZ Scientists warn of DDT type
GM mistakes
GM crops not
needed for sustainable industrial products
Insecticide
from GM corn seeps into soil - study
GE crops with Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
genes suspected to disturb soil ecology
Bt Impacts on Soil
Microbial Communities Needs Further Study
Persistence of transgenic sugar beet DNA in soil and horizontal gene transfer
Biodiversity impact of
herbicide resistant crops - Iowa State University
Bt maize kills
non-target beneficial insects (see mid page of link)
GM potatoes kill
natural predators of aphids
Oestrogen levels rise
risk in Roundup Ready Soya beans
Biosafety of the UN
Convention on Biological Diversity
Compositional change in
milk from cows fed on GM soya
Doubts over mutant pollen from gm
crops in Honey - University of Leicester
Biodiversity impact of
herbicide resistant crops - Iowa State University
Non-target effects of
Bt corn pollen on the Monarch butterfly
GM OSR cross pollination
found up to 2.5 km away - Scottish Crop Research Institute
New Scientist - rape
cross pollination