Last week, we told you about an disturbing new study that
found long-term damage caused by Monsanto’s Genetically Modified (GMO) corn and
Roundup week-killer.
And despite a firestorm of invective from the agri-business
giant and its allies, it looks like they won’t be able to talk their way out of
this one – France has promised, for the first time, to put GMO crops under a
microscope and seriously look at possible health risks.
As Guardian (UK) environment blogger John Vidal noted,
Monsanto’s corporate flacks and their bought-and-paid for allies trotted out
every epithet imaginable to trash the study, including “biased”, “poorly
performed”, “bogus”, “fraudulent”, “sub-standard”, “sloppy agenda-based
science”, “inadequate” and “unsatisfactory”, and France was outed as “the most
anti-science country in anti-science Europe”. (If those arguments don’t sound
particularly “scientific” to you – there’s a good reason. They’re not. They’re
completely ad hominem -attacking the person, rather than the facts.)