"They think they can get by being a nuisance, just pests, until they meet Gene Simmons, who kills pests dead".
BT corn contains a bacterial gene that causes it to produce a toxin that kills pests that eat the plant.
REPORTER AT LARGE about man-made chemicals used to kill pests, which are contaminating our soil, air & water.
Technology means a lot of things: drip irrigation, no-till farming, more efficient ways to use fertilisers and kill pests.
The product differs from most commercially-produced olive oils, which largely rely on fertilisers and treatments to feed the soil, kill pests and keep weeds at bay.
That strain is based on the naturally occurring soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis and mimics its production of a toxin to kill pests.
After decades of conventional farming -- using chemicals to clear weeds, kill pests, and fertilize crops -- the 42-year-old Mr. Ruggieri is going organic.
Nor should we forget that organic food, like all food, is grown with the help of chemicals and the need to kill pests.
And Pamela Hadad-Hurst, executive director of the New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, said biotech crops can kill pests as well as beneficial insects.
Biological control — the practice of strategically using organisms to kill pests — has been common in agriculture since the nineteenth century, but it is relatively new to conservation.
