de Eurasian Kentucky bluegrass, the Africanized honeybee, Chinese kudzu, the Asian tiger mosquito, European purple loosestrife, the European starling, and the zebra mussel. Although many exotics have been deliberately introduced, many come in accidentally in agricultural produce and imported plants and seeds. And estimated 10 percent of established immigrants have major adverse ecological consequences, but there is a new urgency because of the homogenization of the world via import and export of agricultural commodities and deliberate introduction of new plant and animal species. The biotech industry is also trying to promote the idea that genetic engineering is good for all life because it can help increase the Earths biodiversity. This is absurd. A biotechnology supported livestock industry that expands to meet the public demand for meat and dairy products as dietary staples, coupled with more people on the planet, will lead to a loss of natural biodiversity as more and more wildlands and wildlife are obliterated. More trees will be cut down, more swamps drained and more dams built to convert more land into pasture and cropland.Pesticides and fertilizers from genetically engineered pest-killing and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, along with crops that produce their own pesticides, herbicide- and disease-resistant seeds and feed-efficient, disease-resistant livestock, will cause the displacement and extinction of wild plant and animal species. It is vital that ecosystems be saved from loggers, dam builders, monoculture foresters, and cattle and sheep ranchers, since recent studies have shown that large areas of natural habitat must be preserved in order to prevent a decline in species diversity.In addition to the displacement of wildlife and destruction of natural habitats by the expansion of agribiotechnologies, the long-term rebound effects on remaining wildlife populations and habitats need to be considered. If you have a large acreage o...
