Today crops have been successfully genetically engineered and grown today. ... Also the threat of pesticides entering drinking water is reduced, as the need of the chemicals are no longer needed. ... Livestock can be engineered sot that good grade A meat is available. ... As with crops, these engineered animals will be immune to just about every disease. ...
With genetically engineered crops farmers are able to use fewer inputs, and receive a greater yield. ... In 1994, American's saw the first genetically engineered food in grocery stores. ... The all natural products avoid using hormones, pesticides, genetic engineering, and other unnatural chemicals. ... Corn was the first genetically engineered plant with the Bt-toxin, registered with the EPA in 1995. ... Due to the fact that genetically engineered foods have only been around since 1994, it cannot be certain if it is or is not harmful to the environment. ...
It is becoming increasingly evident that some insecticides, at concentrations applied routinely in the current chemical-intensive agriculture system, exert clear, negative effects on the health of pollinators both individually and at the colony level. ... Pesticides: In Germany after World War II, there were many chemical companies. These companies had engineered chemicals used for war, chemicals used to kill people. ... So the same chemicals went from being used in the war to being used to kill insects on crops. ... This means that bees who are in contact with these chemicals may not be able ...
The soybeans are engineered to contain a bacterial gene that confers tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate. ... So farmers are buying these tolerant beans just so they can spray them with this chemical and not have to worry about them dying like every other plant life it touches, or at least that is the idea. ... After only two years after the Roundup Ready soybeans, over 30% of the corn and soybeans planted in the U.S., and close to 50% of the canola planted in Canada have been genetically engineered to be either herbicide or pesticide resistant. ... Monsanto's goal is to create a ...
