Pest resistance is a important issues in the argcultural field and GMO can affect them. This is a problem similar to when crops are given pesticides. Pests will soon become resistant to them over time. GE crops are similar. An example if this is Bt corn. Bt is a type of toxin used to kill pest. But, pests or weeds are bound to become resistant to toxin over time. Therefore, to reduce the amount of pesticide used, scientists were able to create plants that genetically produced BT toxins in order to repel the insects. With the introduction of Bt crops there is still a need to create a system in which will help delay the creation or resistance to BT toxins in the area (pg. 24 Rebecca Grumlet). Some methods are integrating BT crops with non Bt crops to lessen the amount of Bt crops in the field. But, one for the most efficient insect resistance management systems is to put large amounts of Bt toxins in an area (pg25). But, the author explains that this would be problematic because once insects are exposed to the BT toxins for a long duration of time the BT toxins would become ineffective. An example of this would be “where lepidopteron pest have developed resistance to the Bt toxin” (pg25). Lepidopteron are insects like moth and butterflies. As Bt crops are being overused, insects are adjusting to this, and overtime Bt crops will become ineffective due to pest resistance.
An increasing number of people are beginning to grow GE crops. If you compare it to conventional farming (common form of farming) and organic farming, GE crops are able to produce the same amount of food without the need to use pesticides to protect the crops from insects. For example, in an article written by A. Prusak, it presented a table that illustrated the environmental effects of using conventional farming compared to other form of farming like organic and transgenic(GE crops). Conventional farming has a native impact to non-target species like pollinators. “This is due to the extensive use of pesticides which may be harmful to pollinators” (Prusak). Compared to other forms of farming, organic has no impact to the pollinators because they don’t used pesticides or anything since organic farms are natural and don’t use unnatural things in the farm.
An increasing number of people are beginning to grow GE crops. If you compare it to conventional farming (common form of farming) and organic farming, GE crops are able to produce the same amount of food without the need to use pesticides to protect the crops from insects. For example, in an article written by A. Prusak, it presented a table that illustrated the environmental effects of using conventional farming compared to other form of farming like organic and transgenic(GE crops). Conventional farming has a native impact to non-target species like pollinators. “This is due to the extensive use of pesticides which may be harmful to pollinators” (Prusak). Compared to other forms of farming, organic has no impact to the pollinators because they don’t used pesticides or anything since organic farms are natural and don’t use unnatural things in the farm.