GM Cotton
What Does it Really Mean?
purpose
GM cotton is made with one of two traits. One makes it resistant to glyphosate-based herbicides like Roundup. The other stimulates the plant to produce a toxin that kills the bollworm, one of the crop’s biggest pests.
How?
This pest-resistant cotton is engineered with a gene from the bacteria Bacillus thurengiensis.
concerns
- India is the only country that the cotton yeild increases
- pests have already become resistant to the gene in the GM cotton
- reports of livestock dying after eating left over debris
- increased cost