By analogy or logic, the BT protein is an insecticide since it kills the certain class of insects. However, there is a fundamental difference between the natural protein acting as an insecticide vs laboratory made chemical-insecticides. When you eat BT protein, enzymes in the stomach just degrade the BT protein as efficiently as it does with other proteins. The digestive acids in the stomach may not differentiate "transgenic vs non-transgenic" or "good or bad proteins". Eve...ry day's food we eat is infested with lots of bacteria and fungi and viruses. For example, white patches on tomato surface may be the result of viruses, and we never bother to eat the virus. However, upon entering to our stomach, the virus get exposed to digestive acids and get metabolized as programed. Many of the pragmatists promoting organic farming have a misleading perception about the BT protein and are concluding that eating of BT protein is equaled to eating chemical-INSECTICIDES. MISLEADING with innocence.