Huge demonstration against Greenpeace’s anti-Golden Rice propaganda

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.

The French got it right, the Russians got it right, but this country’s liberal idiots still fund these barbarians and zealots.