Save the Butterflies
We must act now, before it’s too late.
Why? Roundup kills the milkweed plant, which is essential to the monarch’s survival.
Milkweed is the only plant that monarch butterflies can lay their eggs on, and it’s the only plant the monarch caterpillar will eat. Milkweed used to thrive in the conventionally grown corn and soy fields of the Midwest. But since the introduction of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops, genetically engineered to allow farmers to spray hundreds of millions of pounds of Roundup every year, milkweed has been largely eradicated. As a consequence, the monarch butterfly population has been decimated, shrinking from about one billion in 1996-1997 to fewer than 35 million in 2014—a 97-percent loss.
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Organic Bytes Newsletter
Read Current Issue — May 10, 2024
Newsletter #850: Mexico’s Right to Refuse GMOs
In This Issue:
- Using a Trade Agreement to Bully Mexico Into Importing Monsanto-Bayer’s GMO Corn
- Mexico’s Right to Refuse GMOs
- Experts Think Turmeric Can Help With Pain
- Pesticide Residues in Food Do Not Tell the Full Story on Hazards and the Importance of Organic
- Understanding and Fostering Resilience
- How One Woman’s Mission to ‘Rewild’ Urban Spaces Is Saving Native Bees
- Connecting the Dots to Grow the Organic Regenerative Movement
- Mexico’s New Food Rights Law
- Together We Can Win.
- The High Cost of Year-Round Asparagus
- GMO Bio-Imperialism
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