Scientists Call Out Greenpeace for Killing and Blinding Kids
1st October 2013
Golden Rice has been genetically enhanced to produce vitamin A as way to prevent millions of deaths and cases of blindness annually in poor countries where the grain is the chief food staple. Back in August, some Filipino “farmers” rampaged through the fields where the non-profit International Rice Research institute was growing out the Golden Rice variety. The “farmers” were actually anti-biotech activists who have worked with Greenpeace in the past to block other biotech crop varieties.
Frankly, the scientific community has been too passive for way too long in confronting anti-biotech groups like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the Union of Concerned Scientists for their campaigns of lies against the safety of biotech crops. But the Golden Rice outrage has finally aroused researchers. Last week, Science magazine published a strong editorial, “Standing Up for GMOs,” condemning activists for their anti-scientific attacks on crop biotechnology.
For self-styled ‘progressives’, Greenpeace and its fellow eco-nazis are some of the more regressive forces on the planet.