{"id":55612,"date":"2013-08-04T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/14-year-old-teen-gmo-activist-schools-ignorant-tv-host-on-human-rights-food-labeling\/55612\/"},"modified":"2013-08-04T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T14:26:10","slug":"14-year-old-teen-gmo-activist-schools-ignorant-tv-host-on-human-rights-food-labeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/14-year-old-teen-gmo-activist-schools-ignorant-tv-host-on-human-rights-food-labeling\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old teen GMO activist schools ignorant TV host on human rights, food labeling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Adams<\/strong>
\nNatural News<\/a>
\nAugust 4, 2013 <\/p>\n

(NaturalNews) Her name is Rachel Parent, and she\u2019s suddenly an internet sensation for her cool-headed debate about GMOs on a popular Canadian TV show. (She\u2019s also the founder of the Kids Right to Know GMO Walk<\/i>.) As you\u2019ll see in the video below, Rachel calmly argues for the basic human right to know what\u2019s in our food, even as the condescending bully of a host named Kevin O\u2019Leary verbally assaults the girl and practically accuses her of murdering children.<\/p>\n

During the debate, Kevin O\u2019Leary, co-host of the The Lang And O\u2019Leary Exchange<\/i> show, viciously attacked Rachel, first accusing her of being a \u201clobbyist\u201d against GMOs (an absurd accusation that O\u2019Leary knows is false, as there is no corporate interest in honest food labeling), and then equating her position of questioning GMOs with somehow supporting a holocaust of widespread death of children. Despite the outrageous attacks, Rachel Parent simply countered his utterly contrived accusations with the facts: GMO crops don\u2019t out-produce regular crops, GMOs are a dangerous global experiment using human beings as lab rats, and consumers should have the right to know what they\u2019re buying or eating.<\/p>\n

(It is astonishing that people like O\u2019Leary want consumers to have less<\/i> information about what they\u2019re buying, keeping them in the dark and subjecting them to the accidental ingestion of modified foods that have been linked to organ damage and cancer tumors.)<\/p>\n

See Rachel Parent\u2019s Facebook page at:
\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gmonews<\/a><\/p>\n

And watch her video debate with Kevin O\u2019Leary at TV.naturalnews.com:
\nhttp:\/\/tv.naturalnews.com\/v.asp?v=207576091B7B916EAF7F8B971D186DF2<\/a><\/p>\n

Tips for Rachel \u2014 how to respond to GMO death cultists<\/p>\n

Rachel is astonishingly good at the art of debate, even at just 14 years of age. (See her picture on the right, too, and notice she\u2019s got a face made for television.)<\/p>\n

In addition to celebrating Rachel\u2019s amazing debate, I also wanted to offer her some advice in confronting these manipulative, anti-human \u201cdeath cult\u201d Monsanto apologists like O\u2019Leary, who actually suggested, when asked about GMO labeling advocates, \u201cI have an answer for these people. Stop eating. Then we can get rid of them.\u201d (Yes, he would love to usher in another holocaust as long as Monsanto got to run the concentration camps\u2026)<\/p>\n

First, you\u2019ve got to fire back and remind people like O\u2019Leary that GMOs are not without their own risks<\/b>. O\u2019Leary\u2019s claim that Rachel endorses the death of children because she doesn\u2019t support genetically modified rice engineered with extra vitamin A completely glosses over the inherent risks of toying with the genetic code of self-replicating crops. There are at least three risks that can be used in any debate to silence anyone trying to shove GMOs down your throat:<\/p>\n

Risk #1) Human health side effects<\/b>. What is the effect of GM crops on humans who eat them? Will they cause organ damage? Infertility? Unforeseen side effects? Wouldn\u2019t it have been wise to answer these questions before rolling out GM crops across the world?<\/p>\n

Risk #2) Genetic pollution<\/b>. Will the artificially engineered genes spread through the crops grown in the wild, altering them in unforeseen ways and possibly creating new genetic vulnerabilities that could lead to sudden crop failures? By invoking this argument, Rachel could have accused O\u2019Leary of \u201cputting the entire human race at risk of starvation\u201d from an unforeseen crop failure caused by GMO pollution. And if challenged on that, she could have pointed to all the other times \u201cscientists\u201d have failed to foresee the devastating implications of technologies that were widely believed to be safe when they were first rolled out: thalidomide, DDT, nuclear power plants, the agricultural policies that caused the Dust Bowl, etc.<\/p>\n

Risk #3) Ecosystem devastation<\/b>. How will GMO crops interact with insect pests and pollinators? Rachel could have rightly invoked the global collapse of honeybee pollinators and pointed to GMOs as one of the factors believed to be partially responsible. Will GMOs also alter insects and make them more resistant to natural plant defense mechanisms in non-GMO crops? If so, that could prove devastating to non-agricultural ecosystems such as forests or plains. We\u2019ve already seen how the use of Roundup \u2013 the herbicide commonly used on GM crops \u2013 has resulted in the rise of \u201csuperweed\u201d that require enormous quantities of herbicide chemicals to eradicate. That\u2019s alarming proof that GMOs actually lead to the use of more<\/i> chemicals, not less.<\/p>\n

With arguments like these, Rachel could have accused O\u2019Leary of \u201cputting the entire planet at risk of a man-made ecological disaster worse than the Great Dust Bowl.\u201d She could have then asked O\u2019Leary whether he \u201csupported global starvation for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rachel Parent is the kind of truth-telling activist who will ultimately defeat Monsanto<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are just ideas of support for Rachel\u2019s next debate. In my view, she was absolutely fantastic<\/b> and really made waves on Canadian television by putting O\u2019Leary in his place.<\/p>\n

Natural News salutes Rachel Parent, and we know that her debate skills will only continue to gain strength as she acquires more experience doing battle with \u201ccult of death\u201d Monsanto apologists like O\u2019Leary \u2013 the kind of people who don\u2019t mind risking the entire future of life on Earth as long as profiteering companies like Monsanto can make a few extra bucks next quarter.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, they should fire O\u2019Leary for being such a homicidal racist \u2013 i.e. openly supporting risking the death of the entire race of humans \u2013 and replace him with Rachel Parent who obviously makes a lot more sense and has a far better ability to connect with the viewing audience.<\/p>\n

Check out Rachel leading the \u201cKids Right to Know\u201d march:<\/p>\n

See Rachel\u2019s video criticizing Kevin O\u2019Leary\u2019s absurd, anti-humanist attacks on children and their food:<\/p>\n

This article was posted: Sunday, August 4, 2013 at 4:28 am<\/p>\n

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