Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 9, 2015. A report, Monarchs in Peril: Herbicide-Resistant Crops and the Decline of Monarch Butterflies in North America, released by Center for Food Safety (CFS) last week, reveals the devastating impact of Monsanto’s and the nation’s biggest selling herbicide, Roundup (glyphosate), on the survival of monarch butterflies. The herbicide is used to treat millions of acres of herbicide-tolerant genetically engineered (GE) crops, eliminating the monarchs’ sole source of food, milkweed, and approaching a collapse of their population, which…
