For the record, I never did like John Stossel’s brand of libertarianism. I don’t believe for a second that Stossel is the real deal at all. I believe his so-called “libertarianism” is all for show and to make a quick buck at the expense of the real believers.
So, this here from Stossel is no big shock to me at all:
It’s easy to scare people about what’s in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear itself kills. Take the panic over genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Ninety percent of all corn grown in America is genetically modified now. The new genes may make corn grow faster, or they may make it less appetizing to bugs so farmers can use fewer pesticides.
This upsets some people. GMOs are “unnatural,” they say. A scene from the movie “Seeds of Death” warns that eating GMOs “causes holes in the GI tract” and “causes multiple organ system failure.”
The rest of it is basically your typical brainwashing from the corporate media and it should be ignored. I will admit to you that the GMO thing is really not my field of expertise at all; as I blog about politics and not food or farming. However, I find it very disturbing and quite anti-American that John Stossel, of all people; would toss Americans who have genuine concerns about GMO foods, under the bus like that. It just seems so anti-American to do something like that.
Of course, we all know that Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel only are open to patriotic Americans who share their warped Zionist worldview. Anyone that strays out from under that, like Pat Buchanan, does not stay long at that network. Furthermore, we all know that Fox News Channel is not above being downright mean to those who disagree with their position on the Iraq War; the eight years that Fox News Channel treated liberals who dared to go on that network were proof of that; so this defending of the GMO’s by a Fox News personality should not be a huge shock.