Millions of people around the world are currently facing a deficiency of Vitamin A, and clinical trials have shown that this technology could substaintially prevent deaths and issues related to the micro-nutrient deficiency. If you aren’t familiar with Golden Rice, it is a plant that has been genetically modified (GM) to contain beta-carotene, the source of Vitamin A. Currently, he is actively involved in the Allow Golden Rice Now campaign and vows to help get the technology off the ground across the world. Moore’s most recent endeavor isn't winning him back any buddies from his Greenpeace days. Technology will be the only way we can solve this. Too many people wake up hungry each day.It’s all a little too ironic and, unfortunately, the media buys into this anti-human agenda. Detractors of groups like Greenpeace have been to known to label such “extreme environmentalists” a few different things, but Moore’s definition hit the closest to home to me. Moore says environmental extremism is anti-business, anti-capitalism, anti-science, anti-technology, anti-trade, anti-globalization and, in the end, “just plain anti-civilization.” And they do this, he says, all while flying around the world connected via the latest tablet and smartphone. The extreme environmental movement is anti-human.That was Moore's preface to an excellent discussion he led with producers and agribusiness experts during the Minneapolis meeting. Here are three of my top takeaways from that discussion: I found that my Greenpeace, which had begun as a humanitarian organization trying to prevent all-out nuclear war, had drifted into a position where we described humans as the enemy of the earth.” “There is no getting away from the fact that 7 billion people wake up every morning on this planet with real needs for food, energy and materials. I decided it was time to figure out what I was in favor of,” the former Greenpeace president explained. “I had been against at least three or four things every day of my life for 15 years. By the mid 1980s, his small group, which had its inception in a church basement, had grown into a powerful organization with offices around the world and attracting $100 million in donations annually.Īt that point, Moore says he decided he needed a change. Their success proved that a “ragtag bunch” could gain huge amounts of public attention and change the course of history. Moore’s story starts during the height of the tension surrounding the Cold War, Vietnam War and, as he says, “the threat of all-out nuclear war.” In the late 1960s, the ecology PhD student joined a small group of activists in planning a voyage across the North Pacific to protest U.S. Nevertheless, earlier this month at the Minnesota Agri-Growth Council Conference in Minneapolis, Patrick Moore, a PhD who was once smack dab in the middle of the radical environmental crusade, captivated producers and agri-business leaders as he shared his sensible approach to environmentalism. A founder of an extremist environmental group isn’t the typical agriculture conference’s agenda highlight.
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