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Friday, April 4, 2014

The co-existence of organic and GMO foods

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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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