Organic foods and GM foods are not usually thought of as
having any relationship to each other. However, in an op-ed published
in the Daily
Caller, Patrick Moore, a former head of Greenpeace (who resigned
twenty years ago out of disaffection with their fringe activism) and well-known
pro-GMO advocate and founder of the pro-Golden Rice campaign “Allow Golden Rice Now”
— and Mischa Popoff, a policy analyst at the Heartland Institute, argue that
the organic movement and the GMO movement cannot be separated. They in fact
exist in “perfect anti-technological symbiosis. What’s bad for GMOs is good for
organics and vice versa.”
The basis of their argument is this: “But for all the
half-baked arguments against Golden Rice along with demands for the useless
labeling of foods that have contained GMO ingredients for close to 20 years
now, the fact is that organic and Greenpeace activists actually need GMOs.
They’re quite content to continue to ‘co-exist’ right alongside their avowed
arch nemesis because it provides a vital element to their continued existence
as activists.” ....To Read More......
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