The whole GMO strategy has turned out to be an abject failure, while encouraging practises that are essentially unwise and debilitating to the soil. However you want it, it becomes a lose - lose strategy after a rather short period of profitability.
All of which tells us that the conversion to organic technology will now be forced on the farm industry rather quickly. It took essentially from 1950 to 2010 to fully industrialize agriculture. That is sixty years. What we have today though is a much more adept community than sixty years ago.
Conversion to full organic industrialized farming will hardly take as long. The main shortage will be multiple applications robots able to provide sophisticated field work. We have plenty of work arounds but need effective boots on the ground without wasting massive human effort in mind numbing boredom..
BOMBSHELL: Genetic modification proven ineffective — pests have become immune to the poison of modified crops in less than five years, but we still have to eat it
Monday, October 23, 2017 by: Isabelle Z.Tags: bollworms, Bt corn, Bt cotton, Bt crops, environment, GM crops, herbicide resistance, junk science, pests, Resistance, superbugs, superweeds, toxic chemicals
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Last year, farmers around the world planted genetically modified crops like soybeans, corn and cotton across 240 million acres of land
that create proteins from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacterium.
Capable of killing pests like beetles and caterpillars, their effects on
the environment and human health have long been the subject of much
debate.
Those in favor of GMO crops – who tend to also be the ones who
benefit from it financially – say that they will end world hunger, but
now such lofty proclamations have been deflated as a new study shows
that pests are quickly developing resistance to genetically modified
crops. In just five years’ time, scientists say that many bugs have
gotten to the point where they can simply shrug off the poisons that are
created by GM crops.
After looking at 36 cases examining how insects respond to crops that
were modified to produce the insect-killing Bt protein, they discovered
that bugs developed resistance that made the GM crops substantially less effective in 16 cases. Another three were starting to show “early warnings of resistance.”
They took their data from cases involving 15 different species of
pests in 10 countries, including the U.S. China, Brazil, Spain, Mexico,
Australia and the Philippines. Their results were published in the
journal Nature Biotechnology.
The study also reported that pests’ resistance to Bt crops has been evolving more quickly
in recent years as their resistance to already-introduced strains can
breed cross-resistance to different Bt proteins that are introduced in
future GM Bt crops.
Full resistance is inevitable
Their solution to this increasing resistance, of course, will
probably be to create different genetically modified crops and then
start the whole damaging cycle all over again in five years or however
long it takes the pests to develop resistance this time around. That’s
because when you try to outsmart nature, you might win in the short
term, but in the long run, nature will emerge victorious.
Beyond GM’s Pat Thomas said: “There have been increasing reports that
super bugs are developing resistance to the Bt toxin but this report
very starkly shows that technofarming with GMOs just does not work and
in fact makes life harder for farmers in the long by run ruining crops
and livelihoods.”
Resistance an ongoing problem
This is hardly a new phenomenon. In 2015, researchers discovered that the crop pest corn earworm had stopped responding to the Bt toxin. A year earlier, it was discovered that bollworms had developed resistance to Bt cotton,
destroying GM crops in Pakistan. On that occasion, one Pakistani cotton
grower lamented that all Bt cotton varieties had failed to kill the
bollworms and live up to their promises. Farmers there were then advised
by the government to spray their crops even more – after Monsanto had said that Bt cotton would decrease pesticide use!3
Bt crops in India, meanwhile, failed to deliver on their promises,
leading many farmers to unmanageable debt and spurring one of the
world’s biggest suicide epidemics, with nearly 300,000 Indian farmers
killing themselves in the last two decades.
These “solutions” aren’t killing pests and they are causing
widespread problems for people and the planet, so why are we still
poisoning ourselves? Traditional farming practices like crop rotation
can also prevent pests and disease, and they do it without creating
superbugs or putting the health of life on our planet in jeopardy.
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