Greenpeace are a bunch of idiots whose misguided, extremist views polarize others against the environmental movement - the bitter irony is that they often advocate courses of action that'd result in greater harm to the environment.
Cases in point:
They advocate for the shutdown of all nuclear plants. Germany did, and look at the results: despite all their talk about renewables, they ended up replacing their clean nuclear plants mostly with BROWN COAL, the dirtiest fuel there is.
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Greenpeace also played a major role in the legal campaign against Bt eggplant in the Philippines - ultimately resulting in it being banned.
The irony, of course, is that Bt eggplant contains a proven-safe protein that renders it highly resistant to the eggplant fruit and shoot borer, so pesticides aren't necessary to control it.
But no, apparently they'd rather see more pesticides polluting our environment... because they're too stupid to look beyond their moronic "GMO bad" dogma.
The environmental movement would be far better off w/o Greenpeace's endless idiotic prattling & Quixotic pursuit of harmful ends that only seem worthwhile if one is too immature to question the consequences, too uneducated to be aware, or too stupid to understand.
Same goes for the loony bins at organizations like the "Non-GMO Project": genetic engineering of crops is our best hope for reducing & eventually eliminating pesticide use, as well as enabling agriculture to work in a warming climate.
It depends if the pollen is harmful to other insects. Bti only hits flies/mosquitoes and not bees/caterpillars, but if the strain included in this cultivar is designed to kill a shoot borer, it's probably killing pollinator butterflies too.
@AlphaCentauri The engineered eggplant contains the gene for a toxin called Cry1ac, which is only toxic to a narrow subset of moths.
In any case, I guarantee it's less toxic to pollinator butterflies than the insecticides they currently spray to kill the same borer.
The compound Bt eggplant produces, being a protein, also won't last terribly long in the environment outside the plant - it'll wind up getting denatured and broken down in pretty short order, unlike the insecticides they spray now.