How Neil Young, Greenpeace work to starve the world’s poor

This month, rock legend Neil Young will release his 36th studio album. It’s a bit different from his usual fare.
Called “The Monsanto Years,” the album features the collaboration of Young and Willie Nelson’s sons, Micah and Lukas, and targets Monsanto, the company known for producing food made from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
According to Rolling Stone, listeners will hear Young sing this gem: “I love to start my day off without helping Monsanto/Monsanto, let our farmers grow what they want to grow/From the fields of Nebraska from the banks of the Ohio/Farmers won’t be free to grow what they want to grow/If corporate control takes over the American farm/ with fascist politicians and chemical giants
walking arm in arm.”
The aging songwriter is following the lead of activists who claim that GMOs are harmful to health, farmers and the environment.
This is tragically wrong. In reality, GMOs can save millions of lives. It’s the environmentalists who are doing real harm.
The best example of this is Golden Rice, a miracle grain enhanced with Vitamin A-producing beta-carotene.
Developed 15 years ago, it was considered a breakthrough in bio-fortified technology. Today, 6,000 children will die from Vitamin A deficiency. Each year, 500,000 people, mostly children, lose their sight; half of them will die within a year of becoming blind. That’s over 2 million children every year, all victims of Vitamin A deficiency.
Many of those lives could be saved if Golden Rice were in their diets.
But the ongoing opposition of anti-GMO activist groups and their lavish scare campaign with its combined global war chest estimated to exceed $500 million a year have kept Golden Rice off the global market.
Deploying highly sophisticated PR and un-scientific scaremongering, Greenpeace has led that opposition. But it hasn’t acted alone.
Last year, to Greenpeace’s loud cheers, MASIPAG, a closely allied organization, violently attacked and destroyed a Golden Rice field trial in the Philippines. The group claimed to be a “farmer-led network,” but local officials reported that its thugs had been bused in from a nearby city.
MASIPAG’s list of supporters and partners reads like a directory of European church and government-sponsored social-justice and development groups.

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