Many of the world’s leading scientists are disappointed with Greenpeace. More than 107 Nobel-Prize-winning scientists have signed a letter urging—oh, come on, pleading—with Greenpeace to end its worldwide opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Pleading not in the name of science, however, but humanitarian concern for millions of children in the “developing” nations who go blind, and then die, of Vitamin-A deficiency. These children, say the Nobelists, could be saved if Greenpeace did not block a genetically engineered strain of rice, called “Golden Rice,” that would supply the deficiency.
This is the comment I can't get my head around.
ReplyDelete"if Greenpeace did not block a genetically engineered strain of rice, called “Golden Rice,”
Block? How can any one NGO have acquired enough clout to block something like this? That is the real story. How much of that huge Greenpeace budget, a good part coming from taxes, is used for political grease?