Re: disturbing reports involving genetically engineered

**J*@aol.com**

Hmmm.

It was reported: "Mexico's Environment Department says that 75 percent fewer Monarch butterflies have appeared in 2004 compared to previous years. It blames cold weather and intensive farming - including GM crops - in areas of the US and Canada where the butterflies spend the summer and reproduce..."

Wonder why they excluded the disruption of the overwintering habitat as an additional cause.

It was also reported: "Monarch butterfly larvae have been found to die after eating milkweed coated with GM corn pollen."

That ocurred in the lab, not in the field/landscape.  

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