The Mad Soy Disease

The "mad soy disease" strike Brazil due to Genetically Modified crops. According to the USDA Global Agricultural Information Network, 78 percent of Brazils soybean plants are GM. The scientists in the United States, identified more than 40 diseases linked to Genetically Modified plants. The GM crops spread the disease to the crops themselves, and to other near by planted crops. The disease delays the maturation of infected plants.  The plants remain green until they eventually rot in the field. The top leaves thin out, and the stems thicken and become deformed. The poison and highly toxic chemical in the GM plants, threatens human and animal health. 


“Significantly increase the severity of various plant diseases, impair plant defense to pathogens and diseases and immobilize soils plant nutrients rendering them unavailable for plant use”, says Don  Huber, recently retired scientist from Purdue University. Scientists are in the process developing a cure for the disease. So far they have not found a cure and disease will continue to spread across South America.