Today's Drudge Report had a link to this article on the British newpaper, The Telegraph, in which Britain's Prince Charles goes on a long diatribe about genetically-modified (GM) food.
Ole Chuck has had a bee in his bonnet about the environment and GM foods for awhile. He's also a big global warming nut. But this is his strongest - and least substantiated - temper tantrum yet. In this instance, Mr. Princess Diana is succumbing to the same syndrome that affects many American Hollywood celebrities. Namely, he is using his celebrity to go spouting off on a topic about which he knows next to nothing.
This one is particularly bad since, without offering a single fact beyond anecdotal evidence of having seen the consequences ("I have been to the Punjab where you have seen the disasters that have taken place as result of the over demand on irrigation because of the hybrid seeds and grains that have been produced which demand huge amounts of water...Look at western Australia. Huge salinization problems. I have been there. Seen it. Some of the excessive approaches to modern forms of agriculture") he claims that great calamities have already taken place because of GM food.
Uh, no. Sorry, Charlie. The real calamity is that because of similar paranoia from the EU about GM foods, countries in Africa won't accept food that would save I-don't-know-how-many thousands from starvation.
Stick to what you know, Chuch. Polo, or something.
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charles is a total wanker want to stick to something he is good at like dating ugly old women
Not only a wanker as far as GM foods is concerned, but also a double wanker because it has been disclosed that he even interferes with legislation that does not suit his own selfish interests. Do not forget that although he was of our most undemocratic politicians - thousands of green letters to different ministerial depts. he is UNELECTED. Wanker!!!
It's not so much that he's a wanker (although he is), it's just that he has limited intellectual ability, as do most members of the royal family in the UK, including HM the Queen. I don't mind this because most of them keep their mouths shut on matters of national importance. Prince Charles' problem is that he doesn't. We should not really pay any mind to people who comment on matters about which they know nothing. The problem with Prince Charles is that the media seem to think his opinion is valuable, and it isn't.
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