Recently,ย Forbesย (along with other online magazines)ย retracted the identification of Patrick Moore as a Monsanto lobbyist. But couldย Mooreโs nose really be clean, or is he sniffing around GM/biotech company coffers like a dog in heat?
Newsweek presented Moore as a two-faced environmentalist with a short history of involvement with Greenpeace, but also as a man who went against all the activists who were sincerely challenging the actions of corporations committing environmental crimes.
We are supposed to believe that Moore’s ties to Monsanto should be overlooked โ and if he is an environmentalist โ then by all means GMOs are O.K.? I’m not so sure about that.
This is the same man that told a French TV journalist that you could โdrinkโ glyphosate โ that is until he was offered some in a glass to chug himself. A Monsanto representative told Newsweek in an email:
โDr. Patrick Moore is not and never has been a paid lobbyist for Monsanto.โ
As Paul Fassa has pointed out, Forbes recently used Mooreโs โwrong titleโ as a means to lash out against anti-GMOers, treating them as a bunch of tin-foil-heat-wearing buffoons, but why in the world would someone actually suggest you could drink glyphosate unless you were on the take for biotech?
Moore has a provable, indirect relationship with Monsanto.
Recently, an enthusiastic, Filipino anti-GMO network of farmers, scientists, and other NGO groups announced that they had managed to thwart โAllow Golden Rice Now!โ in its efforts to get the Philippine government to back GMO golden rice production.
The Allow Golden Rice Now! is a lobby group based in Canada. They heavily marketed this slogan in the Philippines from March 3-10 to campaign for the adoption of GM โGolden Rice.โ Who led the tour? None other than Patrick Moore. He even stopped in the Philippines to lobby the government there and hoped to influence India and Bangladesh to accept Golden Rice as well.
Study: Sick People Have High Levels of Glyphosate in Urine
Moore has repeatedly proselytized the supposed good of Monsanto, and anyone who champions Bill and Melinda Gatesโ poster child for GM corruption – Golden Rice – is no doubt in the pro-GM lobby.
Specifically, Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta are pushing the Golden Rice through Asia since they know these areas treat rice as a staple and they wish to dominate that market, and expand it elsewhere. It is argued that Golden Rice cultivation has absolutely nothing to do with โcuring blindness,โ and Filipino farmers know this. That is one of the reasons they are refusing the cultivation of this GM crop in their country.
Moreover, Moore has consulted for the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has worked for the mining industry, the logging industry, PVC manufacturers, the nuclear industry, and has tirelessly worked in defense of biotechnology. With ties like these โ you can see clearly where Mooreโs interests lie โ with polluting corporate bullies.
Additionally, Moore is in fact called โthe most brazen of the spin doctorsโ by many environmentalists.
Greenpeace even released a statement about Moore to that effect:
โPatrick Moore often misrepresents himself in the media as an environmental โexpertโ or even an โenvironmentalist,โ while offering anti-environmental opinions on a wide range of issues and taking a distinctly anti-environmental stance. He also exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes.โ
Is Moore a Monsanto lobbyist? You decide.
He’s a real piece of work!
You are really in s mess with this aren’t you. Golden rice wasn’t developed at all by monsanto . I assume he supports golden rice because it would help stop blindness in kids. But you idiots have nt got a clue about reality . Another who supports Gm technology is evil. No facts just a religious blind belief. Organic actually has killed people and you defend it. Someone who is an ecologically minded person can’t possibly support Gm technology. The technology may have reduced insecticides in corn and cotton by 100’s of millions of gallons a year just in the U.S. alone but you think going back to spray insecticides is better.
Where did you get your ‘informed’ ignorance?…from watching TV? ….back in the 1950’s the cancer rate was 1 : 64…now it’s 1: 3…thx to your GMO buddies…do the research…educate yourself from multiple sources …Mon$atan employee’s still refuse to eat any kind of GMO in their own cafeteria’s….or are you just another shill for BIG AG…or worse still …an allopathic negatively programmed Rockefeller minion that BELIEVES in their own B-S?….
Cancer rates are going up for a variety of reasons. Diet, exercise, drinking, smoking, air pollution, radiation from computers and cell phones, the list goes on and on and nowhere does it include gmos. As far as monsantos cafeterias, how many have you visited? Or do you get your information from obsure websites that spread lies?
I just set the hook in the cheek of a genuine ‘bought & paid for’ Shill….& he bit ! …..hahaha!….One day …& that day will come…..you’re going to have to pony up & face your maker Troll…but then again socio/psychopaths are born without a conscience.
Strange how you don’t even try and have an intelligent conversation. All you wish to do is to accuse. You aren’t t smart enough to look at the facts, or the overwhelming majority of research and science behind this. You are a sad person. I pity you. I have no doubt that on judgement day I will get a credit for being an honest businessman helping farmers feed the world. I wonder how bearing false witness against neighbor will go for you? For my part I forgive and pity you eddy.
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Aren’t we a big boy. We can be vulgar. I guess it works for you when you get showed up.
โYou aren’t t smart enough to look at the factsโ The fact is
that the longest GMO feed study using rats was about 12 weeks long which makes their safety inconclusive! I really donโt appreciate having glyphosate in my urine either.
Strange how the rats at the grain elevators are doing just fine on gmos after twenty years now isn’t it.
Eddy, Don’t waste your time replying to these two trolls. They are paid extra if you engage them !
Cheers KW…seems Andy has a couple of parasitic satanic minions buzzing around like mosquitoes…sad… that they are so dense….much like Nazi sympathizers that ratted out their neighbors ….& all for $$$ ….pathetic mercenary lifeforms that they are…maybe they’ll drink some glyphosate & do everybody a BIG favor….cheers
I don’t know anything about him but the way you attack him without facts obviously means you aren’t thinking straight
The fact is this lackey said Glyphosate is safe to drink and then refused to drink it!
I knew Bob Hunter & Paul Watson at the time in Vancouver BC where I lived on the water & came to know them coincidentally… as a couple of founding members of the original ‘Green Peace’ – ‘before’ it was surreptitiously undermined by vested interests that insidiously perverted it’s original mandate…Patrick Moore was a duplicitous ‘water -ass’ charlatan back then, when he cut his hair & switched sides to accept a job from the $$$ side of the Canadian Lumber Barons…& he’s absolutely an obsequious & sycophant satanic minion now ….replete with a spine of a jelly fish…imo
Any “scientist” who refuses to believe in man-made climate change should not be allowed to call himself a scientist and Patrick Moore is a well known climate change denier. This clown will say anything if someone pays him enough.