Crafty Buggers

By Alice Toler

Authors: Alice Bain

Via Grist, a report on the burgeoning failure of Monsanto’s GMO pesticide-resistant and pesticide-producing crops. Basically, in an evolutionary race against insects we will never win on any permanent basis by poisoning them, because their life cycles are so short that they can simply evolve around the obstacle.
The bugs that…

Authors: Alice Bain

Via Grist, a report on the burgeoning failure of Monsanto’s GMO pesticide-resistant and pesticide-producing crops. Basically, in an evolutionary race against insects we will never win on any permanent basis by poisoning them, because their life cycles are so short that they can simply evolve around the obstacle.
The bugs that ate Monsanto

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This article was originally published on December 15, 2011.