The other main issue with cross pollination is the expenses it costs the non-GMO farmer to keep his products safe as possible. Although the actual costs of cross pollination are not mentioned in the previous article, tI was able to find a source that gave the actual amount of exactly how much revenue these farmers actually lost to cross pollination. According to “Organic Farmers Pay the Price for GMO contamination” from the food and water watch and organic farmers agency for relationship marketing, they tell us that the average farmer, per year, experienced cross pollination revenue loss of roughly $4,500. These revenue losses most likely had to do with both their sales, equipment replacement (like washing off a knife after cutting raw chicken), and the prevention costs. Non-GMO farmers who live near GMO farmers must constantly pay these prevention costs that fund the “buffer zones”
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What many think of as “bad for the environment” is the idea of genetically engineering crops and an unnatural process which could cause negative effects on the soils. But, in actuality, according to the article “The Environmental Impact of GMOs” from Onegreenplanet.org, those aren’t the main concerns of scientists. The main and probably biggest concern is the toxins (especially from the pesticides) within the GMOs themselves and the effects those toxins may inherently have on insect and animals. The article tells us that “GMOs may be toxic to non-target organisms, bees and butterflies being the most talked about”. This is plenty cause for concern since the importance of bees (and believe it or not) butterflies is to pollinate the Earth and the plants we need to survive. Without these two insects the world would be a completely different place, hence why there are now organizations around the globe whose main objective is to protect bees/butterflies and keep them from going
What many think of as “bad for the environment” is the idea of genetically engineering crops and an unnatural process which could cause negative effects on the soils. But, in actuality, according to the article “The Environmental Impact of GMOs” from Onegreenplanet.org, those aren’t the main concerns of scientists. The main and probably biggest concern is the toxins (especially from the pesticides) within the GMOs themselves and the effects those toxins may inherently have on insect and animals. The article tells us that “GMOs may be toxic to non-target organisms, bees and butterflies being the most talked about”. This is plenty cause for concern since the importance of bees (and believe it or not) butterflies is to pollinate the Earth and the plants we need to survive. Without these two insects the world would be a completely different place, hence why there are now organizations around the globe whose main objective is to protect bees/butterflies and keep them from going