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Dr. Rick Kirschner: Kevin keeps making this about ‘Shouldn’t we be conducting experiments?’ when it’s about ‘Shouldn’t we stop experimenting without controls or consent?’ If we get labeling, we will at last be able to connect cause and effect relationships. He’s using straw man arguments.
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dainis michel: The root of Kevin’s argument comes from a parasitic perspective. Science can and could be applied to create healthier foods, but that’s not happening with many GMO’s. Dangerous, untested, and poisonous plant-like creations are sold disguised as the sustainable foods they once were. To grow these crops, you need to poison the environment. Instead of creating health abundance and prosperity, these seeds are funneling profits to their “creators” while causing death and endangering our species.
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DCWatchdog: Well you know Mosanto has people in our govt now so they are getting what they want which casts even more doubt on the legitimacy and safety of their products. Clarence Thomas, FDA vice president, and a few others.
Most of congress seems to be traitors and I’m talking both R and D. You might see states breaking off from the Union which they’re allowed to do constitutionally if it gets a lot worse. This federal govt lacks credibility, legitimacy, and approval rating.
Whats funny is having the GMOs might be a death sentence. How many people have gotten cancers from it, nobody knows. They could just as easily plant non-gmo crops and feed those people so his point is invalid. It also casts doubt on his credibility. He has a pro-GMO talking point and a terrible failure of one.
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Mike Johnson: […] GMO crops are NOT superior to non-GMO. “Junk science” = If you don’t agree with the finding it is “junk science”. Animal testing does indicate accelerated aging. But there aren’t long term studies on humans. Many generations of rats can be tested and results can be studied. The first GMO food was introduced in 1994. There has not been enough time to study the same generational affects. Why would someone make up results when they study this???
O’Leary kept focusing on third world countries and presenting it like either you allow GMO’s or millions of people will die of starvation. If the purpose of GMO’s is to feed third world countries, why is it fed to people who are not in danger of starving? Why test on everyone on the planet and endanger worldwide ecosystems? Why not test it only in certain controlled environments, on only those who risk death without this experimental food, at least until it is proven safe?
Our whole society tests things and if they aren’t safe, we don’t sell them. Cars, boats, planes, MICROWAVES, CELLPHONES, and even our food. Oh, that car has a defective gas tank. They recall the car. MICROWAVES are tested to make sure that the consumer isn’t nuked along with the food. CELLPHONES are tested to try to make radiation not exceed acceptable levels. The burden lies with the producer of whatever they are selling. I don’t define scientific “progress” until it is proven, which it is not!
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Alex Muir: I’d like to see Kevin debate with Dr. Thierry Vrain, formerly Head of Biotechnology at Agriculture Canada’s Summerland Research Station, was once a supporter of GMO. He has in the last 10 years changed his position after paying attention to the flow of published studies coming from Europe that questioned the impact and safety of engineered food and is now sharing his concerns.
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wavesport777: @ 11:11 the host says “I don’t have the choice to avoid GMO corn if I live in America”. I don’t agree with this statement. Start buying organic locally grown foods. If the food products were not available 60 years ago (example, boxed food, prepared foods, junk foods etc) do not eat these “foods”. GMO corn syrup is used in almost all “food” and drinks on our shelves in North America. Everyone has a choice but everyone should be given that choice through labeling.
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Pete G: Kevin O is a right-wing moron whose main concern is the money and the bottom line. If there are benefits to GMO products — fine; exactly what are they? Regardless, let us know what products are GMO and let the people decide if we want to buy them. THAT is the issue here: we want to know what products are GMO and which aren’t. Labelling should be law in Canada. Period. If GMO companies are so proud of their products, why are they against letting everyone know which ones are theirs?
- DCWatchdog: […] when it comes to GMO. Its a HUGE safety concern for a lot of us and honestly I think Monsanto and others should be shut down, jailed, and more for experimenting on us without our approval. She’s simply not just sharing opinions, she was also sharing acts.I think more people are becoming aware of the games that people in politics play and time is running out for that.
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Erwin Alber: The people who are pushing and profiting from these things should all be in jail, or even better given the death penalty as a deterrent to the rest of the psychopaths.
Also, I don’t agree that it’s fine to grow GMO crops as long as we have labelng because the GMO crops pollute GMO-free crops so that in the end ALL our crops will be polluted, making labeling completely redundant!
So-called bio-technology is in fact death technology which is like vaccination programmes, fluoridation and chemtrails used to drastically reduce the world population.
- bunkermh: O’Leary really presents himself as a sell-out asshole. He speaks as if starving populations have to die unless they are fed GMO. The whole world could be fed on what the USA spends on its bloated military industrial complex — without having to resort to Frankenfood! “Hi starving person! Our country has raped and pillaged your country into economic ruin with our economic hit men. Now eat our toxic GMO food and thank us later for your slow death! Btw, we’ll profit from your slow death, too!”
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exilepec: Here is the point: Monsanto and others like them want GMO foods because they are patentable. This will allow these mega-corporations to legally own and therefore control the world’s food supply. All these pro/con arguments are just fluff. The real danger here is social and economic, not health (although the potential health detriment is not trivial). Most people oppose GMO foods for the wrong reasons.
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maluorno: i like how the hosts imply that there are ‘lobbyists’ on both sides of the issue… Multinational conglomerate on one side – 14 year old girl on the other. I wonder which has more clout….hmmm
- MessageOfTheKingdom2: This man is actually afraid that labeling will lead to a reduction of the consumption of GMO corn etc. if labeling goes into effect. He knows that the more people become aware of GMOs the ill effects that are not being reported by the MSMedia they will shun it. All of MSMedia personnel pay checks are linked to Big Pharma and companies like Monsanto. One produce sickness, the other maintains sickness. For a company to own a seed is too big a price for the world to pay. No GMO!!!
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Seriously, girl you are freakin’ awesome, I have tears of happiness in my eyes, when I see kids like you beeing so passionated about this. Thank you.
Smash it!
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But, then again we would not have seen his ignorance if he wouldn’t have been put up against a 14 yr old.? Rachel Rocks!!!!
ahh the political power that controls the news (yes its true so dont deny)
“I can’t afford organic food, so I eat fuckin monsanto shit and may die on cancer, but I do it, because the way it is and I can’t chance anything.”
Seriously, there is not only one Lobbyist in this show
Seriously, girl you are freakin’ awesome, I have tears of happiness in my eyes, when I see kids like you beeing so passionated about this. Thank you.
Smash it!
In the meantime you could look up Mark Lynas too (on his conversion from anti-GMO, not-anti-GMO), if you haven’t. It’s interesting.
Did you read the criticism? Do you think the criticism is unwarranted? Do you think the study was a decent study?
I am genuinely interested to find out the real incentive behind opposition to GMOs.
This Monsanto guy was awful; one has to be 14 years old to withstand it gracefully.
sciencedirect (dot) com / science/article/pii/S0278691512005637
Go Rachel!
I think I’d disagree with the second part of your comment (as a soon-to-be PhD student within science/engineering). I am in the UK though, so things might be different if you’re only talking about the US.
Obviously it deteriorated towards the end, but this is Youtube so I don’t expect any better.
I actively spread the word about the ‘evils’ of the monetary system, Western capitalism, the brainwashing consumerist and tribalist culture, and profit-grabbing immoral corporations like Monsanto.
I just happen to support evidence-based science at the same time.
My position against the political side, doesn’t automatically lead to discrediting science and evidence (unlike many people on OUR side of the politics, unfortunately).
Amanda Lang: We’re the Lab rats
Rachel: Exactly
How can you say there is evidence for the safety of GMOs, when the testing is only performed by the companies who gain from the results?
And when an independent study has shown the damage caused by GMO’s, the scientists who performed the study are instantly discredited by the government agencies, the same agencies that are run by industry executives.
You seriously underestimate the power of money to corrupt.
I’m open-minded and genuinely interested. So I’ll go with whatever the evidence shows.
Companies like Monsanto are not there to do Science. They exist to make money! Maybe you should start questioning the monetary system and stop taking things as given. Nobody is better or smarter than anyone else. There are only equally valid perspectives. Unless we expose the obvious we can’t make any real change or progress
GMO is not science. It’s a business!
Bottom line, science has failed in every way when it comes to playing God, they bring species of insects to control others only to fail too recognize they don’t have a natural predator to control the species introduced to a region.
Bottom line, science has failed in every way when it comes to playing God, they bring species of insects to control others only to fail too recognize they don’t have a natural predator to control the species introduced to a region.
Some scientists may be corrupt, but the scientific community works on the basis of scrutinizing studies by independent peer-review in order to weed out corruption and biases. It’s not perfect, but it’s our best tool.
Just because results of a study happen to support the operations of a profit-grabbing monopolizing corporation, that shouldn’t discredit the science itself.
So-called bio-technology is in fact death technology which is like vaccination programmes, fluoridation and chemtrails used to drastically reduce the world population.
Well done, Rachel Parent. Well done.
He uses straw-man arguments to push a corporate agenda. No doubt these idiotic arguments (and lies) were provided to him as talking points by people that think we’re stupid. Anyone with half a brain knows that being anti-GMO does not equal being anti-science. I could go on…
GMO,s are poison; Monsanto and the US-gouverment, including Obama, the FDA, the CDC and the WHO are murderers. They are all the same; just see the revolving doors systeem.
People all over the world are waking up. We, in the Netherlands are very strong against GMO,s.
I,d like to know how much these “hosts” got paid for their absolute stupid questions and remarks.
God save America!!
Btw this young girl is amazing! xx
Additionally open-mindedness in this context just implies accepting and believing in his view point, like his own daughter sadly did.
These hosts are cunning bastards
Shielding GMO testing on the general public under the umbrella of ‘science’, is like asking people who are against torture if they are against interrogation.
GMO is certainly not the only way to scientifically engineer new and better ways to produce and cultivate food. His arguments make it sound like we only just started using science to grow food a few decades ago, and that everything before that was inhumane treatment of those startving around the world.
YES IT DOES, are you deaf? She never claimed that gmos should altogether not be done anymore, she wants people to be more careful about them because the cons overthrow the pros
It’s infuriating to have an ignorant TV host on my side.
Where is the scientist? Why not bring in someone with a scientific background to explain to this girl how GMOs have been tested, and the evidence supporting their safety and benefits.
Why is NOBODY there so when Rachel asks: “Should we be messing with mother nature?”, respond with: “Should we stop medicine?”
She makes some good points. I admire her courage and passion. But she needs to be better informed.
Kevin O’Leary came across as a disgusting individual. Mr. O’Leary’s shill accusation was unforgivable. He is the shill. His rude, and disturbing attack on this intelligent, young girl shows his real colours.
That, despite she being a ‘shill’. She was bribed with a bicycle…made of organic hemp
‘Rachel, do you know the word ‘Lobbyist’?
‘Well, Kevin, enough so as to recognize one when he’s trying to Delphi me…’
Last time I checked, study participants had to consent, Kevin.
Dr. Rima Laibow has been warning people this was happening for YEARS now…& now, the poison-pushers have gone mainstream…reality, science, documented evidence, health & life itself be damned.
Rachel did a GREAT job holding her own against such OBVIOUS FRAUDS.
1) people have lived w/o GMO for millions of years.
2) people starve due to neocolonialism & 1%ers’ (WallSt) hoarding (commodity future trading).
3) Monsanto don’t give f*** about people.
It’s amazing how numb those tv hosts are while forced to be monsanto’s guinea pigs.
Well done, Rachel.
Shame on him for his willful ignorance, manipulative and false arguments with this bright young woman!
It all starts with the New World Order!! Its not a conspiracy but FACT!!!!
I include a constitutional republic in the mix, because it bites like fascism. In the end if I’m bitten by a rattler or black window, I’m hurt.
Government and law in part is an attempt at controlling the mischief of people using people. Do you see a problem there. A constitutional republic that protected liberty for everyone is not a bad idea. But once you get people to administer government…I just don’t have a clear answer.
But if you’ve ever been to a farm you’ll see pigs swim in much grey matter. It makes me wonder how professorfoxtrot can claim Kevin won the debate? I wonder what might be taking a mud bath in his head. Or is it the case of having all the pieces to the largest puzzle in the world but no thumbs to put it together. Hard to tell. His words do sound intelligent though.
Check out Facism in Wikipedia. The distinctions are like trying to classify the differences of spiders. They’re still spiders. In fact if you can look at the definition of fascism compared to a so-called free uS of A republic, it certainly seems to define fascism as practiced.
The only bruises were the ones Kevin got. She controlled. She got the debate going. She didn’t get side tracked or flustered. She rebutted BS with what appears to be fact; “only 90 day testing…” “GMO rice didn’t help blindness
In an adult debate she held her own and didn’t allow Kevin to dismiss her. She kept it simple @ clean. The right to know and responsible science apart from those that make a buck from the science.
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I’m not for GMO, but only making a point. I wasn’t a fan of this “debate”, I’d like O’leary to share his thoughts with someone who seems fully knowledgable on this topic and has not memorized some website or article.
ya and look how much disease and cancer there is in the country.
She was more gracious and kept her good humour. He was insulting – saying she is ‘a shill’, and ‘being used by others’, as if she doesn’t have a mind of her own: she clearly does. And he gave those insults even in spite of his obvious attempt to tone down his belligerent style. He was also condescending, suggesting she would ‘grow out of it’.
She won.
Most of congress seems to be traitors and I’m talking both R and D. You might see states breaking off from the Union which they’re allowed to do constitutionally if it gets a lot worse. This federal govt lacks credibility, legitimacy, and approval rating.
Point is, she has done her research, she knows what’s really going on, and he doesn’t.
“Starving kids VS altering foods?” seriously, there is no food shortage on this planet, its just not properly distributed.
Long term efffects? Well isn’t the USA the sickest nation of all? Just keep wearing a blindfold and sleepwalk into a cliff. ktybb
“Games in politics” — When I look at Congress, I’m pretty convinced that it will get worse before it gets better. The House rep. from my district is a prime example. Can’t stand the guy!
I don’t agree with this statement. Start buying organic locally grown foods. If the food products were not available 60 years ago (example, boxed food, prepared foods, junk foods etc) do not eat these “foods”. GMO corn syrup is used in almost all “food” and drinks on our shelves in North America. Everyone has a choice but everyone should be given that choice through labeling.
This is why I don’t watch Lang & O’Leary.
I think more people are becoming aware of the games that people in politics play and time is running out for that.
The objective of chem trails, fluoridation, GMO foods and mandatory vaccinations is to deliberately kill off the human population. The elite have planned this for over a hundred years. Watch the stock market. Read the protocols for the learned elders of zion. Learn about Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller. This takeover has been in the works for generations and their plans are almost complete. The fiat system will fail, then comes NWO.