A ‘crime against humanity’ is how 109 Nobel prize winners describe Greenpeace’s stance against the production of genetically modified foods.

A group of Nobel laureates in various disciplines, referred to the need to produce food to feed the world’s growing population, describing the environmental organization Greenpeace‘s opposition to the practice of precision agriculture as ‘criminal’.

They point out that Greenpeace and other similar groups “have misrepresented the risks, benefits and impacts of GMO’s, and supported the criminal destruction of field trials and approved research projects.”

In a letter published on the internet, the Nobel prize winners noted that “We urge Greenpeace and its supporters to re-examine the experience of farmers and consumers worldwide with crops and foods improved through biotechnology, recognize the findings of authoritative scientific bodies and regulatory agencies, and abandon their campaign against “GMOs” in general and Golden Rice in particular. ” … they said that GMOs are “as safe as, if not safer than those derived from any other method of production “… and “There has never been a single confirmed case of a negative health outcome for humans or animals from their consumption.”

The laureates called on “governments of the world to reject Greenpeace’s campaign against Golden Rice specifically, and crops and foods improved through biotechnology in general; and to do everything in their power to oppose Greenpeace’s actions and accelerate the access of farmers to all the tools of modern biology, especially seeds improved through biotechnology. Opposition based on emotion and dogma contradicted by data must be stopped.”

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