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SW: →Harm to Wildlife: updating links
As with other herbicides such as Atrazine, the use of Roundup has been linked to the decimation of frogs worldwide [http://www.umc.pitt.edu:591/m/FMPro?-db=ma&-lay=a&-format=d.html&id=2115&-Find]. This is truly unfortunate as it is estimated that a single frog can consume 10,000 garden/farm pests in a growing season [http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072909498/student_view0/biological_controls.html].
A related issue is news that GM Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) pollen which Monsanto has engineered to be present in every cell of it's Bt crops causes harm to non-target insects, see e.g. [http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2007/2007-10-11-096.asp Transgenic Corn Found harm to caddisflies] [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7GVS-4HVW8RG-5&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=947920523&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=16ae885be231679388298fa394a8270f harm to Damage Stream Ecosystemsswallowtail butterflies][http://www.gmwatcheko.org.ee/gmo/images/archive2stories/artiklid%20GMO%20probleemid/another_view_on_bt_proteins_-_hilbeck__schmidt.asp?arcid=6826 Bt pollen damages European butterflypdf harm to lacewings]
Another issue is the growing resistance of insects to Bt crops [http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?category=National&template=Farmerssuicide&slug=Farmers%20hit%20by%20failed%20Bt%20cotton%20crop%20in%20AP&id=84101&callid=1] [http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/failures092705.cfm] [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2340&lpos=related_article1] [http://www.biotech-info.net/changes_in_refuge.html] [http://www.biotech-info.net/wrangling.html]. See also [http://www.grain.org/research/btcotton.cfm?id=302 BT Cotton in Andhra Pradesh - A Three Year Assessment] [http://www.ddsindia.com/www/PDF/BT_Cotton_-_A_three_year_report.pdf]. Also see [http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=330 BT Cotton in South Africa: The Case of the Makhathini Farmers] and [http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=5741 Every Trick in the Book - The Marketing of BT Cotton in India].
