The Warped World of the GMO Lobbyist
July 7, 2015
The Warped World of the GMO Lobbyist
by Colin Todhunter
Theres a massive spike in cancer cases in Argentina that is strongly associated with glyphosate-based herbicides. These herbicides are a huge earner for agribusiness. But dont worry, Patrick Moore says you can drink a whole quart and it wont harm you. Who needs independent testing? He says people regularly try to commit suicide with it but fail. They survived just. So whats the problem? Perfectly safe. Patrick Moore says he is not an idiot. So he must be right. Right?
Anyway, all that scare mongering about GMOs and glyphosate is a conspiracy by a bunch of whinging lavishly funded green-blob types. Former UK environment minister Owen Paterson said as much. He says those self-serving anti-GMO people are damaging the interests of the poor and are profiting handsomely. They are condemning billions to lives of poverty.
He voted for the illegal invasion of Iraq, which has led to the death of almost 1.5 million Iraqis. His government has plunged millions into poverty and food insecurity in the UK. He now wants to help the poor by giving them GM courtesy of self-interested, corporations and their lavishly paid executives. What was that about self-serving, lavishly funded groups? As a staunch believer in doublespeak, hypocrisy and baseless claims by self-appointed humanitarians with awful track records, Patersons sound-bite smears and speeches are good enough for me.
So with that cleared up, hopefully we can move on.
Then theres all that anti-capitalist twaddle (another pearl of wisdom from Patrick Moore) about smallholders being driven from their lands and into poverty due to a corporate takeover aimed at expanding (GM) chemical-intensive agriculture. I showed Mr Moore a paper by an economics professor who had studied the devastation caused by the above in Ethiopia. Thats where the anti-capitalist twaddle retort came in. As Im also a staunch believer in the power of baseless, ill-informed abuse, I was once again convinced.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/07/the-warped-world-of-the-gmo-lobbyist/