{"id":976,"date":"2007-04-20T17:48:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T00:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=976"},"modified":"2007-04-20T17:48:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T00:48:35","slug":"link-between-vanishing-bees-and-gm-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/link-between-vanishing-bees-and-gm-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Link between Vanishing bees and GM corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/articles\/april2007\/100407beesdying.htm\">Prison Planet<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A study at the University of Jena from 2001 to 2004 showed that                  toxins from a genetically modified maize variant designed to repel                  insects, when combined with a parasite, resulted in a &#8220;significantly                  stronger decline in the number of bees&#8221; than normal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"272\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/images\/april2007\/100407bee.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University                  of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the                  bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have &#8220;altered                  the surface of the bee&#8217;s intestines, sufficiently weakening the                  bees to allow the parasites to gain entry &#8212; or perhaps it was                  the other way around. We don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaatz was desperate to continue his studies but funding was cut                  off.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another related story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/releases\/May99\/Butterflies.bpf.html\">http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/releases\/May99\/Butterflies.bpf.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Prison Planet &#8220;A study at the University of Jena from 2001 to 2004 showed that toxins from a genetically modified maize variant designed to repel insects, when combined with a parasite, resulted in a &#8220;significantly stronger decline in the number of bees&#8221; than normal. &#8220;According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}