February 19, 2015

Monarch butterfly endangered, is Monsanto to blame?

First marketed in 1973, Roundup eradicates weeds and allows commercial crops to grow unmolested. The main ingredient is Glyphosate, and despite widespread use all over the world, its effect upon humans, other animals and the environment is still debated. Crops are genetically modified by Monsanto to become Roundup Ready; modified, they can survive Roundup — weeds cannot.
The Glyphosate herbicide destroys weeds, as the Center for Food Safety recently concluded, including the common milkweed. And that’s a problem for monarch butterfly caterpillars, which only eat the plant.
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2 comments:

  1. Noor al HaqiqaFebruary 19, 2015 at 12:04 PM

    One of the major Monarch resting places on their annual migration is / was a large area of what is now overgrown Toronto. The fields that once were, for a few days, gloriously alive with millions of these creatures were "developed" by a "higher species" a few decades ago. By people who wanted fancy shopping and high rises with a view of Lake Ontario.....

    The butterflies got confused without their age old resting grounds? They stopped blessing Toronto with their annual presence a few decades ago.

    I dare say that, along with Monsanto and glyphosate, etc, it is only COMMON SENSE that all of our unnatural actions upon this planet are resulting in their demise.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2015 at 1:07 AM

    I use to see them in my backyard all the time until a couple of years ago.

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