http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/business/06corn.html?ref=science

This article is about how more and more farmers growing genetically engineered corn are not following the rules set up by EPA. When farmers grow genetically engineered corn they put bacterial genes into the corn DNA, which makes the corn produce a toxin that kills the insects that would eat the corn. The problem with this is that EPA is worried that some insects will become resistant to it. This would have a huge impact on the organically grown corn farmers, who use the same toxins produced by the genetically engineered corn on their organic corn. EPA set up rules for the farmers who genetically alter their crop. These farmers have to also grow regular corn in a close proximity to the genetically altered corn. The idea of this is so the insects will tend to go to the regular corn instead of the resistant corn and also so that if there is a resistant insect, it will have a high probability of mating with an insect that is not resistant, resulting in non-resistant offspring. I thought this was a really good example of how humans should not tamper with certain things in nature. It seems way to risky to me if there was a resistant insect that was to reproduce, it would totally ruin organic farming of corn.