On Wednesday morning, an ad hoc organization
called “Allow Golden Rice Now!”
organized a grassroots demonstration against Greenpeace’s fear- and
agenda-based opposition, right outside the group’s HQ in Toronto. The protest
was led by Dr. Patrick Moore, who back in the 1980s was an original member of
the organization, but became intensely and publicly disenchanted with its
ever-more-strident anti-science agenda about a decade ago.
The protesters point out that the public-domain “golden
rice” has the potential to markedly reduce the consequences of malnutrition in
the Third World related to vitamin A deficiency. A lack of this vitamin causes
visual impairment, including blindness, and immune system dysfunctions leading
to numerous infectious diseases, and is linked to the premature deaths of a
half-million children each year: approximately 8 million dead since Golden Rice
was first developed and ran into the regulatory dead end provoked by
Greenpeace’s crusades against it……To Read More….
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