Fwd: Re: Genetically engineered corn containing Bt Toxin kills
sal (sals@rain.org)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 07:41:44 -0800
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>From: Mary Manson <tonihawr@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
>Subject: Re: Genetically engineered corn containing Bt Toxin kills
> beneficial insects
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>Are you (all) there, Tom ?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Susan Snow <sksnow@1STNET.COM>
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>Date: Sunday, March 22, 1998 7:37 PM
>Subject: Genetically engineered corn containing Bt Toxin kills beneficial
>insects
>
>
>>Here is some more information on what is happening to beneficial insects
>>on which organic farmers and gardeners depend, due to genetic
>>engineering:
>>
>>''...Transgenic corn containing the Bt toxin gene not only killed
>>European cornborers (insect pests), but also killed the larvae of green
>>lacewings, beneficial insects that feed on the cornborers.
>>
>>Another insect pest, the African cottonworm, survived after being fed
>>the Bt corn. However, beneficial green lacewings that fed on the
>>cottonworms died...''
>>
>>See: * Bt Toxin Kills Beneficial Insects at:
>><<http://www.natural-law.ca/genetic/BiotechJan98.html>http://www.natural-
law.ca/genetic/BiotechJan98.html>
>>
>>I encourage you to get involved in saving organic agriculture,
>>regardless of where you live. If the organic farmers in the Unied
>>States go down because of the Clinton Administration's apparent
>>commitment to the biotech industry, organic gardeners everywhere will go
>>down, also because the beneficial insects will not be alive to help!
>>
>>The United States uses one-third of the world's pesticides according to
>>the Union for Concerned Scientists. That amount will grow considerably
>>if organic agriculture is destroyed in the United States. The farmers
>>are trying to fight back, but cannot do this alone. This is everyone's
>>battle.
>>
>>For help on your letter to the USDA on the National Organic Program,
>>see: <http://web.iquest.net/ofma/ltr.htm>http://web.iquest.net/ofma/ltr.htm
>>
>>You can register your public comments online at:
>><<http://192.239.92.75/noppr_setup_register.cgi>http://192.239.92.75/nopp
r_setup_register.cgi>
>>
>>Mail your letter to:
>>
>> Eileen S. Stommes,
>>Deputy Administrator
>> USDA-AMS-TM-NOP
>> Room 4007 South
>> Ag Stop 0275
>> PO Box 96456
>> Washington, DC 20090-6456
>>
>>Docket: TMD-94-00-2
>>
>>OR FAX your letter which contains Docket TMD-94-00-2 to:
>>
>>202) 690-4632
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Susan Snow
>
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