Rael: "Greenpeace’s fanatical anti-GM, neo-mysticism is responsible for the death of 2 million children."
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 24 - Rael, founder and spiritual leader of the International Raelian Movement (IRM), today condemned the organization Greenpeace for opposing genetically modified food like golden rice when such food could save millions of lives around the world.
“These fanatic ecologists are very similar to orthodox religious fanatics,” he said in a statement released today by the IRM. “They reject genetically modified foods without making a distinction between those containing dangerous chemicals, like the wheat produced by Monsanto, and the positive plants that have been genetically modified to include more vitamins, nutrients or taste.”
Rael said the motivation of fanatic ecologists is quite similar to the motivation of religious extremists.
"For example, religious extremists say they reject contraception because it’s 'against the will of God,’” he explained. "But their god is an imaginary god, and the mystico-ecologists are replacing ‘god' with ‘nature.’ They claim it’s dangerous to modify what this ‘nature,' which they often call ‘mother nature,’ has produced through the long process of natural evolution."
Rael pointed out that almost all vegetables and fruits produced today, including even those that are organically grown, are the result of long, artificial selection.
"That is, in fact, genetic modification through artificial selection,” he said. “Modern genetic modification is just saving time by making in a few months what artificial selection would take years to create.”
Rael also observed that although the natural world includes both constructive and destructive things and forces, the term “mother nature" is almost never used for the destructive aspects.
"By the way, it’s quite funny that [mystico-ecologists] use the term ‘mother nature’ when referring to fruits and vegetables, but not when referring to earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes or pandemics that kill millions of people,” he said. “Mother nature is sometimes quite a criminal, and the same logic applies to believers in god who thank their imaginary god when they survive an accident but never blame him when millions are killed by the same earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes or pandemic."
“These fanatic ecologists are very similar to orthodox religious fanatics,” he said in a statement released today by the IRM. “They reject genetically modified foods without making a distinction between those containing dangerous chemicals, like the wheat produced by Monsanto, and the positive plants that have been genetically modified to include more vitamins, nutrients or taste.”
Rael said the motivation of fanatic ecologists is quite similar to the motivation of religious extremists.
"For example, religious extremists say they reject contraception because it’s 'against the will of God,’” he explained. "But their god is an imaginary god, and the mystico-ecologists are replacing ‘god' with ‘nature.’ They claim it’s dangerous to modify what this ‘nature,' which they often call ‘mother nature,’ has produced through the long process of natural evolution."
Rael pointed out that almost all vegetables and fruits produced today, including even those that are organically grown, are the result of long, artificial selection.
"That is, in fact, genetic modification through artificial selection,” he said. “Modern genetic modification is just saving time by making in a few months what artificial selection would take years to create.”
Rael also observed that although the natural world includes both constructive and destructive things and forces, the term “mother nature" is almost never used for the destructive aspects.
"By the way, it’s quite funny that [mystico-ecologists] use the term ‘mother nature’ when referring to fruits and vegetables, but not when referring to earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes or pandemics that kill millions of people,” he said. “Mother nature is sometimes quite a criminal, and the same logic applies to believers in god who thank their imaginary god when they survive an accident but never blame him when millions are killed by the same earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes or pandemic."
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