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Patrick Moore told a Canal+ journalist that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's most widely used weed killer, was not responsible for an increase in cancer rates in Argentina.
"You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you," he insisted.
When the journalist informed him that a cup of the herbicide was prepared for him, Moore bristled, saying: "I'm not stupid."
But when pressed by the interviewer if the substance was dangerous, Moore replied: "It's not dangerous to humans." He added that many try to commit suicide by drinking Roundup, but "fail regularly."
He then walked off set, calling the interviewer a "jerk."
Moore, a biologist, had been an environmentalist for Greenpeace before becoming a lobbyist for the nuclear, logging and genetic engineering industries.
Last week, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer released a report which found that glyphosate was "probably carcinogenic to humans," citing three studies that suggest that exposure to the chemical could be responsible for increased risks for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
After the study's publication, Monsanto has scrambled to get the WHO to retract its report. The company said Tuesday that the findings were biased and invalid.
"We question the quality of the assessment," Philip Miller, Monsanto vice president of global regulatory affairs, said Tuesday in an interview. "The WHO has something to explain."
Monsanto first introduced glyphosate weed killers in 1974, but they gained popularity in the mid-1990s when the company began developing corn, soy and cotton seeds genetically engineered to resist the herbicide. According to a 2012 study by Washington State University the rise of "Roundup Ready" crops has resulted in a surge of glyphosate use.
You see, dear Fellow Readers, the problem here, if you read the article carefully, is that this man Moore used to be a lobbyist for Greenpeace, before becoming a lobbyist for the nuclear, logging, GMO, fracking, warmaking, and genocide industries, and, of course, a lobbyist for the Church of Satan.
His heart was not in his job. (Which he probably no longer holds.... Monsanto demands loyalty from its employees.)
I am certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, and with absolute confidence, that if the interviewer had been speaking to Hugh Grant, CEO of Monsanto, [Link]
..... that Mr Grant would have happily poured a gallon of Roundup into his newborn child's infant formula, and forced his wife to make the baby drink it. And this article would have been a non-starter.
Of course, Mr. Grant would not have partaken of the infant formula himself.
No, no, not what you are thinking. Not at all because he did not believe it to be quite safe. It is because he would have been too busy answering the questions of the local police.
- LG.