Greenpeace protestors recently broke into an experimental Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) farm near Canberra and destroyed a crop of genetically modified (GM) wheat.
The wheat's genetic makeup has been altered to improve its nutritional value. Modifying the level of resistant starch could impact where the digestive process takes place in the gut, and could have health benefits for obesity and bowel cancer.
Greenpeace has always been on the dangerous legal edge between being reputable and becoming Earth Liberation Front and the progressive zealots who work for the multi-national corporation act no differently than any paramilitary group in their efforts.
Writing in Cosmos, Myles Gough outlines how Greenpeace employees donned Haz-Mat suits emblazoned with the Greenpeace logo and destroyed years of research.
Greenpeace employees in Hazmat destroy a crop of genetically modified wheat. Credit: Greenpeace via Cosmos
It's no surprise they have an anti-science approach; any organization that regards random mutation of by high-energy cosmic rays as 'natural' and therefore good but carefully selected changes as evil is quackery even goofier than the anti-vaccine community.
Naturally, Greenpeace issued the hysterical CSIRO "is in bed with foreign biotech companies" rationalization for their terrorism. And they were kind enough to film the event so the science world can ridicule them.
