While I often lament people's lack of engagement on matters of crucial importance, this very well-informed and articulate 14-year-old, about whom I wrote an earlier brief post, gives me some hope for the future.
It is especially rich to hear a corporate shill like O'Leary talk about the importance of examining both sides of an issue as the interview winds down. And note how Parent corrects Lang when she seems to conflate genetically-modified foods with hybrization.
UPDATE: In case you are wondering what Monsanto, the leader in GMO products, has been up to lately, check this out.
It's truly enjoyable to watch and listen to someone who is so young and so articulate, Lorne.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is a reason to hope for better days ahead, I think, Owen.
DeleteO'Leary or 'Mr.Wonderful' is a bit of a fool. I watch him on Shark's Tank (U.S) and Dragon's Dungeon (Canadian). He worships 'Moneeeeey'.
ReplyDeleteIn his world, LeDaro, it's the only thing that counts. Very sad.
DeleteI'm glad Mr. Capitalism sucks up a glorious subsidy from a taxpayer funded organization like the CBC.
ReplyDeleteGet a real job, O'Leary!
I suspect O'Leary's hubris is such that he probably thinks he is doing a public service by spreading his winner-take-all concept of capitalism on the public broadcaster, Anon.
DeleteO'Leary is a bad 'mouth of capitalism' because he reinforces the notion that corporations do NOT want us to know about the product they dump on is. To talk about a 'death sentence' is to enshroud ourselves in the endless fear of doing things for ourselves without a corporate umbrella controlling our lives.
ReplyDeleteConsumers around the world MUST be better informed and labeling and discussion is a significant first start.
Exactly, Anon, but the prospect of an informed and engaged public is something the corporate agenda loathes, I suspect.
DeleteThis is incredible. It is amazing how 2 educated adults gang up on a 14 y.o gold like she is the CEO of a multi-national corporation.
ReplyDeleteLeary is disgusting. 2 basic holes in his argument:
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He wants to label Rachel as a lobbyist = lobbyists are not to be believed. But he uses lobbyists, like many other coersive MNCs, and even mercenaries. Where is his answer to these?
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If GMOs are so amazing, why not label the food as such? Why hide it? If it is so beneficial, then let the world know what marvellous creations GMOs are. Instead, they want to to say GMOs are so ubiquitous, there is no point. Yet we have farmers who want to grow organically. So, given we all have a choice, both should be labelled/defined accordingly.
That Leary is a BILLIONAIRE only illustrates more than ever that the current structure of money is a virus, not a seed.
Time to change.
Frederick
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Thanks for your comments, Frederick. It is indeed telling that people like O'Leary are unable or unwilling to make the distinction in their own minds between those who are paid shills for 'special interests' and those who are motivated by a sincere and honest concern for everyone's health and well-being. I guess someone like Rachel Parent is, in O'Leary's limited yet fevered imagination, an enemy of the corporate state, end of discussion.
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