http://m.canalplus.fr/?vid=1122650 (English with French subtitles)
Interviewee: It is completely safe and you could even drink it
Interviewer: We got a glass of it here, you want to drink some
Interviewee: No, of course not, I'm not an idiot and the interview is over now.
Interviewee: It is completely safe to drink urine
Interviewer: I have some urine here, would you like to drink some?
It is clear the interviewer is there to make a spectacle, not to meaningfully inform the public of the facts.
Edit: Or...
Interviewee: It is completely safe to smoke cigarettes
Interviewer: I have a pack here, would you like to smoke one?
Interviewee: Sure
PROOF THAT CIGARETTES ARE SAFE!!!!
The interview was apparently supposed to be about the golden rice, which is a topic that is completely unrelated to Monsanto in any way at all.
Also, if I was in the shoes of the interviewee, I wouldn't drink it as well, even if I trusted it was completely safe for me - it probably doesn't taste well, and I don't feel like doing a show for a disrespectful jokester in front of me who thinks he's funny, and refuses to talk about the thing he was supposed to.
Also Patrick Moore is a professional science denier. He doesn't deserve respect from anybody.
Also I don't assume that random glasses of chemicals handed to me have been processed and handled in a food-grade manner.
This makes no sense. Chemicals aren't inherently food grade or not. I won't drink a non-food-grade quart of water either.
>It's extreme my disingenuous to hypothesize that a Roundup bottle imparts more health hazard than the contents.
You've heard of agent orange, right? It wasn't the herbicides that injured people, it was small quantities of potent contaminants.
It's not just the bottle, it's every container it's ever touched, every source for dirt or bad-to-ingest chemicals to get in that wouldn't bother plants at all.
Edit: And to be clear, this applies just fine to things that are human-safe in small doses or for farm use. Contamination by literal dirt is a great example of something fine to spray on plants and dumb to consume directly.
Would you drink a glass of food coloring?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_%28environmentali...
It's sickening what passes on as journalism today.
I think you're seeing what you want to see...
Patrick Moore is an ecologist who denies that humans cause climate change, and a corporate consultant through his firm Greenspirit Strategies. Moore has consulted for the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. He has worked for the mining industry, the logging industry, PVC manufacturers, the nuclear industry and has worked in defense of biotechnology.
Although Moore was once (1981, 1986) a leading figure with Greenpeace Canada and subsequently with Greenpeace International, in 2008 Greenpeace issued a statement distancing itself from Moore, saying he "exploits long gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes." [1]