First, a word of warning. You might think that when you donate money to Greenpeace, you’re helping save whales and rainforests. But in reality, they may be complicit in crimes against humanity. [Recently] Greenpeace Southeast Asia and several other NGOs successfully halted the cultivation and use of vitamin A-fortified rice in the Philippines after the Philippine Court of Appeals ruled in their favor.
In doing so, Greenpeace has blocked a multi-year, publicly funded international effort to save the lives and sights of millions of children in some of the world’s poorest countries.
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This is a devastating blow to the Philippine scientific community and humanitarian organizations who had hoped that golden rice could help save the lives of young children in Asia and Africa. This will hinder golden rice’s progress everywhere, including in Bangladesh, where it is once again awaiting government approval after years of unnecessary delays. Although precise estimates are not possible, the potential impact could be as many as 100,000 avoidable child deaths per year, assuming the chilling effect extends to similar efforts in other parts of the developing world. .
This is almost a trivial point by comparison, but it’s important to me as a lifelong environmental activist. Greenpeace’s actions to block Golden Rice would not only damage its own brand, but the reputation of the entire environmental movement.
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