In recent weeks the group US right to know filed a FOIA(freedom of information act requests) and got emails from many scientists including Dr. Folta, who is a professor and chairman in the Horticulutral Department at the University of Florida and it showed he got 25,000 dollars from Monsanto now this money was supposed to go to an outreach program he was doing in and it was to pay the expenses however the anti-gm movement who oppose life saving golden rice and part of the reason I became skeptical of them decided to send all kinds of threats and cruel messages to him and the NYT Eric Lipton wrote incredible smear piece that was lazy journalism, tabloid sensationalism (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-academics-in-gmo-lobby... if you want to read this smear piece) and claimed he was a shill for Monsanto when it was not true
I personally got to know Dr. Folta through email and found him to be a real nice guy and he listened to me about an episode of his podcast he did in regards to autism and I really appreciate it and he has taught me a lot about this technology that I used to demonize here on this blog but thanks to the autism pesticide myth and the golden rice incident from a couple years ago I became skeptical of the anti-gm movement and their real intentions. Their ridiculous ban on golden rice to me is an act of genocide and shows how anti-human and anti-technology and science the radical environmentalist movement is in general.
I am going to quote Robert Zubrin from Merchants of Despair: " When improved crops offer more food with fewer chemicals, antihumanism says no" pg 251 chapter 16 "The Mind Imprisoned or the Soul Unchained" and that statement couldn't be truer. I know like with any human endevour there can be corruption however I have begun to realize that GM can be used for good in this case save millions of children in the third world from diseases we can prevent for pennies on the dollar but radical enviros do not want this has their goal is enlsave and hold humanity back. The FOIA is intended to expose wrongdoing and for the record when these requests have been sucessful and they show wrongdoing it can be beneficial but using FOIA to go after a man who all he has done is teach science for 30 years and has done nothing wrong and have endless death threats and other cruel attacks is deplorable in beyond words horrifying. It is one thing to be against something but to threaten others who disagree like Dr. Folta does with death threats and other cruel acts is something I don't condone and denounce it fully.
Now don't get me wrong, there are times when I have lost it on this blog but I never would threaten violence against anyone only expose but with age I have mellowed a bit but still hold tight to my convictions such as human rights and dignity, freedom, propserity and human innovation and of course being pro-life because without any of these things we have nothing without these very things and why I fight so hard against these radical environmentalists who have an agenda to control our lives and hold back life saving development in the third world but thankfully places like India are saying no to these genocidal policies but we still have more work to do in that regard
Stay Classy everyone
update: as a result of this and I forgot to mention that the university had to reallocate the money and donated it to one of the campus food banks and the food babe launched her own smear attack against him http://foodbabe.com/2015/09/08/proof-monsanto-pays-public-scientists-discredit-move.. this woman who bullied companies like Subway into getting rid of certain chemicals in their dough and even harrassed beer companies over their brewing processes and claimed there as anti-freeze in beer and fish bladders for gods sake which by the way fish bladders are used to filter the beer so they are not in the final product http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/06/23/the-food-babe-is-too-food-as- jenny-mcca.. and I fell for her bullshit as well when I signed a petition for banning certain dyes in Kraft Dinner (even though I despise the product) and well kraft caved to her as well she has been discredited as a fraud and you really should not trust her at all if you want advice about nutrtition speak with a qualified dietician or science based nutritionist or your doctor