Fri Sep 23, 2022 – 9:00 pm EDT
This article was originally published by The Defender – Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website
(Children’s Health Defense) – Bill Gates said he believes the global community must invest in engineered crops using what he calls his “magic seeds” to solve world hunger.
Food aid alone cannot address the problem, Gates said in an essay accompanying the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s (BMGF) Goalkeepers 2022 Report, released earlier this month.
What is needed, he said, are “magic” seeds that have been genetically engineered to be resistant to hot and dry climates or to grow three weeks faster than natural seeds.
“Temperature keeps going up,” Gates said. “There is no way, without innovation, to come even close to feeding Africa. I mean, it just doesn’t work.”
However, André Leu, organic farming expert, former president of IFOAM Organics International and author of “Growing Life: Regenerating Farming and Ranching,” criticized Gates for calling his genetically modified seeds “magical.”
“This is patently false and an example of spin doctoring by public relations companies to rebrand products that are widely regarded as Frankenfoods,” Leu told The Defender.
According to Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., environmental activist,
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