Speaking in an exclusive interview to The Nation, Dr Sir Richard J Roberts, Nobel Prize winner for medicine in 1993, also took at a dig at those who were opposed to GMOs.
“GMOs can help and Europeans need to realise that there is no reason for them to be against it,” the British scientist said in Bangkok.
“If they don’t want it, don’t use it. But don’t pretend it’s dangerous. Don’t try and tell the rest of the world who really need these…”
He and a number of Nobel laureates have got together to advocate utilising GMOs to solve global issues such as food security and poverty.
“For the developing world, for the 800 million people who go to bed hungry every night, food is medicine. They don’t need drugs. They don’t need all, they need food. And here was a way to do it.”
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“Greenpeace has spent huge amounts of money scaring everybody. And along the way they were also successful in making sure that they got political power as a result of it,” said Roberts.
The political power Roberts referred to was very evident when he went to Rwanda. The agricultural minister thought GMOs could help solve hunger, but the trade minister had to say no because using the technology meant Europe would stop trading with them.
