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Category: GMOs
Monsanto Tribunal: How Obsessive Compulsive Activists Try to Control the Message
Getting thrown out of the Monsanto Tribunal was absurd; sustaining several days of personal attacks was obsessive compulsive. A personal journey into how activists control the message.
Monsanto Tribunal: Research on the Testimonies
If journalists are actually covering the fake €500,000 Monsanto stunt in The Hague, they can use research on the testimonies in this blog.
A personal invitation to Vandana Shiva: Listen to Farmers!
Vandana Shiva rarely listens. 200m from the Monsanto Tribunal, we will have farmers speaking about why they need agri-tech. Will she listen?
IARC’s Glyphosate Debacle: Sinking deeper into their pit of hypocrisy
IARC says they are transparent – they are not! They say their scientists have no conflicts of interest – they do! They say their scientific methodology is the strongest – no one else agrees. This is hypocrisy!
Size Doesn’t Matter: How little NGOs pretend to represent the people
How can three activists in a room create enough noise to affect policy, the media and people’s lives? The people they represent are a tiny fraction of the people they affect. This is wrong!
In Defense of Open Dialogue
After a group of anti-GMO zealots got Facebook to remove a popular pro-science page, 12 science communicators speak out against this new form of unilateral censorship.
The Nobel Savage: Greenpeace’s Colonialist Ambitions
In 2013, Greenpeace inspired the destruction of Golden Rice trials. Today science declares their position as a crime against humanity.
How to Starve Africa: Ask the European Green Party
The Europeans have the watches; the Africans have the time. Today, the European Green Party passed an initiative in the European Parliament to make Africa wait for at least another generation to be able to lift itself out of poverty.
The Surprisingly Sudden Demise of the Anti-GMO Movement
Within a few months, the anti-GMO movement seemed to have collapsed under the pressure of its own unreasonableness!