BioTech Food is Healthy......

Here's an article by one of my favorite writers, Michael Fumento. He's written extensively on biotech food, and this short article is a good introduction.

The case for the extraordinary healthiness of biotech crops is strongest with corn that has an insecticide gene from bacillus thuringiensis built into it to kill munching moth larvae.

In the U.S., Bt allows farmers to spray less often. A 2003 National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy Study covering 36 states found it reduced insecticide use by more than 3.6 million pounds annually, along with increasing production by more than 4.7 billion pounds and improving farm income by more than $146 million.

But in poorer nations where spraying may be too expensive, only Bt can prevent caterpillar corn catastrophes. And nasty things aside from crop loss and bug obesity occur when insects crunch on corn, including allowing poisonous molds called mycotoxins to enter the grain.

You can read more by Michael Fumento at his web site which has a ton of great articles and some links to his books. Highly recommended