Reply #16: Interesting, but I certainly don't agree with your original charge: [View All]

[Buzz Clik]

Genetically engineered Bt crops are quite different from Bt being used topically and sparingly at point specific times. You know that. To suggest otherwise is utterly dishonest or uninformed.

I'll confess to being ignorant of the exact mechanism of the expression of the Bt gene in corn, but there is no dishonesty on my part. I also don't agree that spraying Bt and having Bt toxins expressed by corn are necessarily different. I'd be interested in a technical explanation of what turns on the gene to make corn produce the Bt toxin. Does the gene in corn continue to produce the toxin even when the corn plant is no longer metabolising? (Seems unlikely, but not impossible). Is it possible to shut off the gene?