Rachel Parent debates GMO's (vs) Kevin O'Leary on CBC's Lang & O'Leary Exchange
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Connect with Rachel at www.gmo-news.com Follow her Journey at www.facebook.com/KidsRightToKnow Help Rachel and awesome Youth Leaders like her empower and equip their generation through CHANGE GENERATION RISING, a free, action-oriented support and training program for young activists and school students at www.YOUTH-LEADER.org 14 year old Rachel Parent is a passionate advocate of food transparency, the health and safety of our foods, environment and ecosystems for today and our future. As she learned about emerging evidence showing hazards of GMOs on health, the environment and economies around the globe, and that more than 60 countries around the globe require mandatory GMO food labelling - so consumers like you and me have the Right To Know and Choose what Foods we Eat, she started speaking out for KIDS RIGHT TO KNOW also in Canada. On the Global March Against Monsanto, Rachel publicly challenged O'Leary for his remark on television: "Only stupid people protest against Monsanto." Monsanto should be considered a hero for researching for feeding humanity in the future. "I have an answer to those people. Stop eating. Then we can get rid of them." Well. Shocking. Intolerable and incongruent with basic, agreed human behaviour in a good, peaceful, libertarian and democratic society. And a twist for diverting attention from the matter. CBC accepted the challenge, but not without a month's delay. Takie little ride with us, exploring the realm of corporate myth, the media of an unsustainable society, and seeing the pure spirit of Youth Leadership at work. As you watch the show, pay attention to - how many questions are open (for Rachel to talk about the issue she stands for) - how many address facts about GMO benefits (not MYTHS, that Rachel instantly deconstructs) - how many go off-topic in addressing Rachel as a person (a teen), thus undermining the credibility of her as a person and everything she stands for and says - how many assumptions are made about her position (that are off topic, and also shift away from the core (and only) cause she represents) These 12 min and 14 seconds are a powerful lesson about many things. And it shows a 14 year old, passionate about the good cause of transparency, health, a safe environment, clean and ethical science, independent testing fit of democratic societies ... As you will quickly notice, this is not an open dialogue (as any reasonable, civilized debate ought to be, especially when in public) respecting the top level expertise that Rachel represents, ... everything she says is solid evidence, facts and truth presented by unquestionable, multi-award winning global experts, independent organizations, courts and even governments. This is a boxing fight. A nonstop attack, a few open, the majority hidden and low, trying from every angle, supposed merits, egoist guilt trip, anti-science, immaturity, shill, ... ... and she elegantly blocks and returns every punch thrown at her, returning every Off-Topic attack to the clear stance: Study properly. Label it. ... to the point that O'Leary's line of attack breaks down and HE says: OK, I GIVE YOU THE LABELLING and as Rachel in a whiffy deconstructs his allegation that the government was doing proper testing (- watch out for that part!! - ) even says out of the blue: "we are in a long-term study. We have been eating GMOs for years" and thereby commits multiple self-destruction of his position, since (a) the secret feeding of hundreds of millionds of Canadians with supposedly, but not at all properly tested GMOs is not a study (where is his strond advocacy of science, now?) (b) hwy did he say there had been reliable studies? (c) a proper study is done under verifiable conditions in laboraties and clear test groups, not on an entire population in chaotic environments and without access to data and materials (since Monsanto and others have criminalized independent testing by saying it's "their" seeds) (d) and how can O'Leary support that, given that he is so concerned about the health of children in far away Asia? There are many more points, especially that GMOs have nowhere delivered the promised higher yields, long term (as Rachel mentions) AND that his repeated attack that Rachel's position meant a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of children each year is absolutely ridiculous, since ... aren't there other ways for (1) delivering Vitamin A (and entire countries have solved it, including Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, by a simple campaign informing poor country people to tend their own little gardens with a hanfdul of veggies; since no more night blindness in Bangladesh.) (2) other ways for raising yields in people-, nature-, consumer and economy friendly ways? YES THERE ARE. Simple ways are already raising yields by 3-7 times in widespread regions of Asia and Africa. On large scale! Even promoted by governments. Stay tuned for Youth-LeadeR.org's special issue on SOIL, FOOD & FARMING.
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There's nothing wrong with GMO dummies
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I can't believe it! «Are you against science?!» WTF Are they retarded!?
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Ahaha He is so stupid... He can't see long term... pesticides on plants and bees don't mean something for famine? We already see some environmentals problems...so ignorant...and he will probably be the next conservative leader....
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And this dork, O'Leary, might be running for office in Canada?
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What a Scumbag
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She's an amazing example of feminism, activism, and common sense. O'Leary got his ass handed on a silver platter.
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Way to protest
107 Nobel laureates - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/29/more-than-100-nobel-laureates-take-on-greenpeace-over-gmo-stance/ -
GMO FOODS ARE POISON...
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There's not much I enjoy more than seeing someone bite off more than they can chew. Keep chewing Kevin. lol Didn't expect that did you? lol again.
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she is right he is a loser who sends all our jobs to china
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I feel that GMO is never going to be safe though it may have already caused irreversible damage by unintentional cross pollination of crops.
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In several cases in my garden some things didn't grow at all. these were GMO. No problem with regular seed.
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Stand up and fight kids. This is about your future. Help each other even at distances you can make a difference. Know this; you have many adults on your side.
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GIRL IS RIGHT
to ALL you GMO lovers including o'leary if you like it so much - why all of you believers just grab a jug of ROUND-UP from your local HOME DEPOT and make yourself a smoothie out of that - after all IT's HARMLESS right!!! better yet get some bovine hormone and to make things right inject some of that in your mammary gland because all you are indoctrinated BOOBS.
if indeed there were thousands Studies you FOOLS then what are the GMO companies afraid of!!!! Put it on the label and let IDIOTS like YOU eat it.
free market economy would prevail - they would have decreased profits probably to the point of bankruptcy. because there are hundreds of millions that would NOT touch that garbage and small and sustainable FARMERS would flourished once again!
WE ARE ALREADY PAYING MORE FOR ORGANIC FOOD. most people would rather pay more than eat poison.
the worst part about this whole issue is that at some point they will pass a labeling law and by that time the BIO-TECH will use different wording for the whole process and the loop-holes (boy i hate to sound like OBAMA) will allow them to continue the practice! -
girl should have asked if one or both of them are in Monsanto EMPLOY.
those dush-nozles (both of them) were advocating for this POS business that is GMO - they were reading script right from the corporate pamphlets!!
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I love GMO foods, the chemicals inside them give em a nice and pleasant taste. Each corn emits a strong flavorful radiation and I can feel my inner angel wings sprouting from my body.
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GMO are one of the only reasons we can feed ourselves. there is absolutely nothing wrong with them. Kevin is right to try to break her of her idiocy before she wastes the rest of her life protesting something that benefits humanity.
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People for labeling check out the GMO jimmy kimmel scene where they go around asking people at a farmers market about GMO food, that's exactly why labeling won't work
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"No I will never change my mind" is somthing a religious person would say, a scientist would never say that
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