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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, which Monsanto has engineered to be present in every cell of it's crops, but also expressed in pollen, causes harm to non-target insects, e.g. [http://www.ens-newswiremotherjones.com/enstom-philpott/2012/oct200703/2007researchers-gm-crops-are-killing-monarch-10butterflies-11after-096.asp all harm to caddisfliesmonarch butterflies] [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 swallowtail butterflies] [http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2007/2007-10-11-096.asp harm to caddisflies] [http://www.eko.org.ee/gmo/images/stories/artiklid%20GMO%20probleemid/another_view_on_bt_proteins_-_hilbeck__schmidt.pdf harm to lacewings].
In 2001, Pioneer Hi-Bred, another biotechnology firm associated with Monsanto, developed a GM corn variety that contained two Bt toxins, Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1, to kill corn rootworms. "The company asked university laboratories to test for unintended consequences on ladybugs. Scientists fed the corn to ladybugs and found that nearly 100% died after the eighth day in the life cycle. Pioneer forbade the scientists from publicizing the data. A scientist with the group who wants to remain anonymous said 'The company came back and said ‘you are under no circumstances able to publicize this data in any way’. Pioneer submitted data to the EPA showing no harm to ladybugs and received government approval to commercialize the corn in 2003. A Pioneer scientist says the commercialized variety contains a different genetic construct than the corn that killed the ladybugs. The EPA was told about the independently produced data, but did nothing, according to the anonymous scientist. The same scientist also says Pioneer’s data is flawed" <ref>The Organic and Non-GMO Report, [http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/nov09/gm_corn_killed_ladybugs.php "Journal article says suppressed study found GM corn killed ladybugs"] 2009</ref>. Read the ''Nature Biotechnology'' article here <ref>Emily Waltz, [http://www.emilywaltz.com/Biotech_crop_research_restrictions_Oct_2009.pdf "Under Wraps"], Nature Biotechnology, volume 27 number 10, October 2009.</ref>
==Unknown and Unintended Effects==