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In reply to the discussion: MoJo: What Did Monsanto Show Bill Nye to Make Him Fall "in Love" With GMOs? [View all]ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)gm crops and roundup, something worse would be killing monarch butterflies?
in other words, you've already conceded that Monsanto's herbicide is killing monarchs?
the demand for corn hasn't "skyrocketed." US corn acreage is down (2014 acreage), and lower than it was in 2007.
And we both know such "demand" is highly artificial anyway. For example, is the use of corn for ethanol a result of 'demand,' and if so, whose? Considering that market is largely a creation of government mandates.
Non-ethanol uses of corn did not increase over the past decade, but The Ethanol Decade: An Expansion of U.S. Corn Production, 2000-09 reported that while annual U.S. ethanol production increased nine billion gallons, harvested corn acreage increased 10 percent, or 7.2 million acres, in the same period. Corn used for ethanol increased by 3.7 billion bushels, while total corn production increased by 3.2 billion bushels.
http://www.agri-pulse.com/ERS_cropland_8192011.asp