From 1996 through 2006, the total area planted in GM crops increased 60-fold, today exceeding 100 million hectares in 22 countries. The use of GM or biotech crops has increased yields, decreased pesticide use, and promoted no-til agriculture, markedly decreasing soil erosion. The fears that their widespread use would lead to the rapid development of Bt-resistance in insects and wipe out Monarch butterflies have not been realized. To date, the only unforseen outcomes of their use have been positive: *Bt corn shows much lower levels of contamination with mycotoxins, which can be lethal, because the fungi that produce them follow the boring insects into the corn. No insects, no fungi, no mycotoxins.