Monsanto ‘Biotechnology Book for Kids’ Caught Brainwashing Children
Facing direct opposition from the public, biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow are now making a disturbing attempt to brainwash developing minds into accepting their genetically modified foods using blatant lies and propaganda.
In a last ditch effort to potentially sway public opinion, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has launched the “Biotechnology Basics Activity Book” for kids.
With the intent to be used by ‘agriculture and science teachers’, the activity book spreads absurd lies about GMO crops — even going as far as to say that they ‘improve our health’ and ‘help the environment’.
The book can be seen on the organization’s website, and makes it extremely apparent that it is full of misinformation and propaganda that completely ignores scientific research surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
In fact, let’s examine some claims made by this book that serves as an ‘educational’ tool to be used by teachers.
The first claim by the activity book is that genetically modified seeds actually grow more food than traditional seeds, and is followed by even more ridiculous statements. The activity book reads:
Hi Kids! Welcome to the Biotechnology Basics Activity Book. This is an activity book for young people like you about biotechnology — a really neat topic…. You will see that biotechnology is being used to figure out how to: 1) grow more food; 2) help the environment; and 3) grow more nutritious food that improves our health. As you work through the puzzles in this book, you will learn more about biotechnology and all of the wonderful ways it can help people live better lives in a healthier world. Have fun!
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How is this such a bad thing – given your propaganda in the opposite direction? The relentlessly negative and sensationalist claims made by the anti-GMO lobby are pervasive to the extent that ordinary people are bewildered and misinformed.
This is a welcome step in the other direction.
Really? Lies and unsubstantiated nonsense presented to children as fact is a welcome step? Then again that is what the vaccine industry of which you are a part has been doing for a long time. I wonder who funds your research projects Professor. keep taking the mercury.
I don’t and potentially will never understand people’s aversion to genetically modified foods. Amino acids can be altered to improve nutrition, this is true. They can be edited to make larger crops, yes. They can even be edited to create resistances to cold by borrowing genes from foods we ALREADY EAT that come from NATURE and implanting them into new foods. The genes are not holy combinations brought down from the gods. They are tangible and changeable. While I’m sure something bad could be done with the use of genetic-modification technology, the nature of genetic modification is certainly not innately evil.