Young activist fighting for Monsanto to label their GMO foods, challenges TV host to a debate and then takes his ass to school.

Courtesy of Salon:

Rachel Parent, founder of “Kids Right to Know,” just wants people to be aware of what’s in their food, and to be able to avoid GMOs if they so wish. 

Does she know what a lobbyist is? asks Canadian TV host Kevin O’Leary. 

Yes, and she just wants people to be aware of what’s in their food. 

Let’s say instead of being white and privileged, she was born in China, had no vitamin A in her rice, went blind, and died. Does she still hate GMOs? 

She’d like to see some independent studies. Really, she just wants people to be aware of what’s in their food.

Damn! remind me not to get into an argument with THIS young lady!

You know the part where it is pointed out that we, the consumer, are essentially the lab rats that companies like Monsanto use to do long term testing on their products really made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

The fact is that over the last twenty years companies have been bypassing rigorous testing standards in order to get their products into the market faster and we have already seen substantial fall out from that. (After all it took a Naked Chef to finally get McDonalds to stop feeding us poison meat.)

I thought this young lady was beyond articulate and nothing she was saying sounded at all anti-science. In fact it seemed clear to me that all she wanted was for the companies using us as lab rats tell us that we are being used as lab rats so we can take ourselves out of the experiment.

I find that an admirable goal and applaud the fact that she has the guts to fight for us against a company as large and influential as Monsanto. (Remember they now own the same army of mercenaries that we used in Iraq.)