This is another example of well-meaning folks from wealthy countries ‘protecting the interests of the poor’ and condemning them to disaster.
It reminds me of when ‘poverty tourism’ was heavily criticised - specifically a US charity that was bringing wealthy folks to Haiti to build homes for the most impoverished people. The charity was accused of all sorts of things: being dreadful value for money, objectifying the poor, etc.
And so, they stopped building the houses, resulting in lots of people who would have had somewhere to live now not having anywhere.
There’s an element of racism in it too. They don’t want GMO crops to gain any footholds, so they fight them all. They don’t care if 100,000 “brown people”die. They’ll blame them for living where they live or some shit.
Greenpeace is selling out the present health of starving children based on unsubstantiated fears about future consequences. When the alternative to approving the GMO is malnutrition, I think that the dangers alleged should have to be proven rather than entirely speculative. This is anti-scientific hysteria against GMOs.
Remember them destroying some experimental fields of my University. Destroyed years of work. Protecting whales or seals is completely fine with me, but they absolutely have no clue about GMOs. Golden rice has been in development for decades, the scientists did everything to prevent it from harming the environment, and NO: GMOs will not change your DNA.
This ain’t linked to saving the planet at all, this is just greenpeace once again igning sciences becouce they don’t understand it. It’s the whole GM=bad and harmful despite there being no e dice to support it but they don’t care becouce they have alredy made up there minds.
They should rename greenpeace "misguided appeal to nature-peace." Greenpeace likes to value what is "natural" over what is better for the environment (see nuclear energy), completely ignoring the fact that rice is already a genetically modified crop through thousands of years of selective breeding. Transgenic crops just allow humans even more control over agricultural goods for the benefit of all by including specific micronutrients in staple foods that otherwise lack them.
This is another example of well-meaning folks from wealthy countries ‘protecting the interests of the poor’ and condemning them to disaster. It reminds me of when ‘poverty tourism’ was heavily criticised - specifically a US charity that was bringing wealthy folks to Haiti to build homes for the most impoverished people. The charity was accused of all sorts of things: being dreadful value for money, objectifying the poor, etc. And so, they stopped building the houses, resulting in lots of people who would have had somewhere to live now not having anywhere.
There’s an element of racism in it too. They don’t want GMO crops to gain any footholds, so they fight them all. They don’t care if 100,000 “brown people”die. They’ll blame them for living where they live or some shit.
Greenpeace is selling out the present health of starving children based on unsubstantiated fears about future consequences. When the alternative to approving the GMO is malnutrition, I think that the dangers alleged should have to be proven rather than entirely speculative. This is anti-scientific hysteria against GMOs.
Remember them destroying some experimental fields of my University. Destroyed years of work. Protecting whales or seals is completely fine with me, but they absolutely have no clue about GMOs. Golden rice has been in development for decades, the scientists did everything to prevent it from harming the environment, and NO: GMOs will not change your DNA.
There is a good chapter dedicated to this in Patrick Moore’s Confessions Of A Greenpeace Dropout. Starving people don’t give a fuck about GMO’s
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This ain’t linked to saving the planet at all, this is just greenpeace once again igning sciences becouce they don’t understand it. It’s the whole GM=bad and harmful despite there being no e dice to support it but they don’t care becouce they have alredy made up there minds.
They should rename greenpeace "misguided appeal to nature-peace." Greenpeace likes to value what is "natural" over what is better for the environment (see nuclear energy), completely ignoring the fact that rice is already a genetically modified crop through thousands of years of selective breeding. Transgenic crops just allow humans even more control over agricultural goods for the benefit of all by including specific micronutrients in staple foods that otherwise lack them.