Re: BIOTECH: BT resistant Monarch Butterflies?

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 15:46:16 MDT


On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 10:30 am, Charles Hixson wrote:
> The problem is... butterflies were picked as the species to worry about
> because they were photogenic, not because they were the one most
> endangered.

Do you have any evidence to support this conspiracy theory? I thought
that the butterflies were picked because their habitat was closest to
the fields where the BT pesticide plants would be deployed. It makes
sense that the closest insects (besides the pests in the fields that we
want to kill) would be the ones to study.

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Harvey Newstrom, CISSP		<www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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