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class="bighead subh chapter" id="defense" data-reader-info="{"title":"Philosophy For Nature","emoji":"\ud83c\udf43","emoji_anim":"nature"}">Philosophy In Defense of <span class="e" data-anim="nature">🍃</span> Nature</h1><h3 class="bighead t4">Breaking the Intellectual Silence on <span class="e">🧬</span> Eugenics</h3><p class="firstcap">In 2021, several scientific organizations boldly declared the <cite>GMO debate</cite> <q class="s">over</q>, citing the apparent fading of <cite>anti-GMO activism</cite>. But does silence indicate acceptance?</p><p>The <cite class="link">American Council on Science and Health</cite>, <cite class="link">Alliance for Science</cite>, and <cite class="link">Genetic Literacy Project</cite>, among others, proclaimed:</p><h3 class="bighead debate-over">The GMO debate is <q class="s">over</q></h3><blockquote class="debate-over light"><p>While the GMO debate has been percolating for nearly three decades, our scientific data indicate it's now over. The <cite>anti-GMO movement</cite> used to be a cultural juggernaut. But as time goes on, the activist groups that once held so much sway seem increasingly irrelevant.</p><p>Though we still hear some moaning and groaning it primarily comes from a small group. Most people simply aren't concerned about GMOs.</p><ul class="highlights"><li><a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/05/18/3-reasons-anti-gmo-movement-its-way-out-15523" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="quote big noborder"><span class="title">(2021) <strong>The Anti-GMO Movement Is On Its Way Out</strong></span> <span class="desc">The anti-GMO movement used to be a cultural juggernaut. But as time goes on, the activist groups that once held so much sway seem increasingly irrelevant.</span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk">American Council on Science and Health</span></span></a></li><li><a href="https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2021/12/5-reasons-why-the-gmo-debate-is-over/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="quote big noborder"><span class="title">(2021) <strong>The GMO debate is over</strong></span> <span class="desc">Though we still hear some moaning and groaning it primarily comes from a small group. Most people simply aren't concerned about GMOs.</span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk">Alliance for Science</span></span></a></li><li><a href="https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/12/17/5-reasons-why-the-gmo-debate-is-over/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="quote big noborder"><span class="title">(2021) <strong>5 reasons why the GMO debate is over</strong></span> <span class="desc">While the GMO debate has been percolating for nearly three decades, data indicate it's now over.</span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk">Genetic Literacy Project</span></span></a></li></ul></blockquote><img data-z="/images/plant.png" width="140" height="120" alt="🌱" class="right"><p class="q-bold" style="margin-top: 2em;"><span class="sitetitle"><span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span> was founded in 2022 to facilitate an intellectual defense of nature through <cite>philosophy</cite>.</p><p>Upon noticing the claims by science organizations in 2021 that the GMO debate was <q class="s">over</q>, the author discovered that many nature and animal protectors were in fact silent on GMO and <cite>animal eugenics</cite>.</p><p>A philosophical investigation revealed that their silence likely does not stem from indifference but from a <strong>fundamental intellectual impossibility</strong> that we explore in our article <a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/silence/">The Silence of <span class="e">🥗</span> Vegans</a>.</p><h1 class="bighead tophead sub chapter" id="scientism" data-reader-info="{"title":"Scientism"}">Investigation of Scientism</h1><p>The <span class="sitetitle"><span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span> project is part of a broader philosophical investigation of <cite class="active">scientism</cite>, the philosophical root of <span class="e">🧬</span> <cite>eugenics</cite>.</p><p>The <span class="sitetitle"><span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span> project delves into the philosophical underpinnings of <cite>scientism</cite>, the <cite><q>emancipation-of-science from philosophy</q> movement</cite>, the <q><cite>anti-science narrative</cite></q> and modern forms of <cite>scientific inquisition</cite>.</p><span class="right dennett-darwin"><span class="img"><img data-i="200/dennett.jpg" data-s="a/dennett/" alt="Daniel C. Dennett" width="200" height="200" class="dennett" data-data-i="200/dennett.jpg" data-s="a/dennett/"> <img data-i="80/charles-darwin.jpg" data-s="a/dennett/" width="80" height="99" alt="Charles Darwin" class="darwin" data-data-i="80/charles-darwin.jpg" data-s="a/dennett/"> </span><span class="text">Charles Darwin or Daniel Dennett?</span></span><p><span class="sitetitle"><span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span> contains an eBook of a popular online philosophy discussion titled <q><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/absurd-hegemony-science/">On the Absurd Hegemony of Science</a></q> in which renowned philosophy professor <cite class="active star">Daniel C. Dennett</cite> (known for his best seller <q><cite class="link">Darwin's Dangerous Idea</cite></q>) participated in defense of <cite>scientism</cite>.</p><p>For those interested in the views of <cite>Daniel C. Dennett</cite>, <a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/absurd-hegemony-science/#qualia">chapter <q>Dennett's Defense of His Rejection of <span class="e">🧠⃤</span> Qualia</q></a> contains over 400 posts debating Dennett's rejection of the philosophical concept <cite class="active">Qualia</cite>.</p><div class="flex-center"><blockquote><p>A book without an end… One of the most popular philosophy discussions in recent history.</p><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/absurd-hegemony-science/" class="quote big noborder middle local"><span class="ebook-icon en"><img data-z="/images/icons/ebook-icon-frame-70.png" data-zd="/images/icons/ebook-icon-frame-dark-70.png" alt="📲" width="70" height="70" class="left trans" style="margin: 0;"> <span>Book</span> </span><span><span class="title">(2025) <strong><q style="font-style:italic">On the absurd hegemony of science</q></strong></span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk"><span class="sitetitle"><span class="e">🦋</span> <span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span></span> <span class="s">|</span> Download as PDF and ePub</span></span></a></blockquote></div><h3 class="bighead subchapter" id="anti-science">The <q>Anti-Science</q> Narrative</h3><p>Our investigation of eugenics traces it to scientism and reveals that it is an escape attempt: a retreat from the <cite>fundamental uncertainty of nature</cite> into an illusory certain <cite>empirical realm</cite>.</p><p class="reader-link" id="trolls" data-reader-link="{"title":"Alliance for Science: <q>GMO opponents and Russian trolls <q class=s>sow doubt<\/q> about science<\/q>","emoji":"\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa","subchapter":true,"level":2}">The <q>certainty</q> required by science to emancipate itself from philosophy is illusory and due to this, science feels itself literally threatened by sheer <q class="s">doubt</q>, as evidenced by an article by Alliance for Science that sought to heap GMO opponents with <q>Russian trolls</q> for causing <q>doubt about science</q>:</p><blockquote><p><span class="e">🇷🇺</span> Russian trolls, aided by anti-GMO groups such as the <span class="e">🍒</span> Center for Food Safety and Organic Consumers Association, have been strikingly successful in sowing doubt about science in the general population.</p><p class="quote more big"><a href="https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2018/11/anti-gmo-activism-sows-doubt-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="title">(2018) <strong>Anti-GMO activism sows doubt about science</strong></span> </a><span class="source">Source: <a href="https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2018/11/anti-gmo-activism-sows-doubt-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance for Science</a> <span class="s pdf">|</span> <a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/pdf/index/cornell-gmo-doubt-science.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="pdf" data-pdf='{"file":"cornell-gmo-doubt-science.pdf","path":"\/pdf\/index\/cornell-gmo-doubt-science.pdf"}' download="cornell-gmo-doubt-science.pdf">PDF backup</a></span></p></blockquote><img data-i="150/justin-biddle.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/" alt="Justin B. Biddle" width="150" height="150" class="right round aspect" data-data-i="150/justin-biddle.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/"><p class="reader-link" id="biddle" data-reader-link="{"title":"Philosophy professor Justin B. Biddle","emoji":"\ud83e\uddd4\ud83c\udffb","subchapter":true,"level":2}">Philosophy professor <cite class="active star">Justin B. Biddle</cite> who studied the <cite>anti-science narrative</cite>, concluded the following:</p><blockquote><p>The <q>anti-science</q> or <q>war on science</q> narrative has become popular among science journalists. While there is no question that some opponents of GMO are biased or ignorant of the relevant facts, the blanket tendency to characterize critics as anti-science or engaged in a war on science is both misguided and dangerous.</p><p class="quote big"><a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/BIDAZV" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="title">(2018) <strong>“Anti-science zealotry”? Values, Epistemic Risk, and the GMO Debate</strong></span> </a><span class="source">Source: <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/BIDAZV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PhilPapers</a> <span class="s">|</span> <a href="https://www.justinbiddle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">justinbiddle.com</a> (Georgia Institute of Technology)</span></p></blockquote><p>Science attempts to create a situation of <q>war against science</q> in which opponents can be challenged and combatted on ideological rather than philosophical grounds.</p><p>Our investigation of the application of the anti-science narrative in <span class="e">🇵🇭</span> Philippines reveals that the label is weaponized alongside calls for literal prosecution.</p><ul class="highlights philippines"><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/philippines/" class="quote big noborder local"><span class="title"><span class="e">🇵🇭</span> <strong><span class="text">Philippines GMO Golden Rice and the <q>Anti-Science</q> Inquisition</span></strong></span> <span class="desc">This investigative report exposes how local voices in Philippines were silenced, global attention for a 2024 Supreme Court GMO ban deflected to <img data-z="/i/p/index/greenpeace-logo.svg" width="142" height="22" alt="greenpeace" align="absmiddle" class="greenpeace" data-data-z="/i/p/index/greenpeace-logo.svg">, and the <q class="s">anti-science</q> narrative weaponized against GMO opponents.</span></a></li></ul><p>In 2021, the international science establishment called for anti-science to be combated as a security threat on par with terrorism and nuclear proliferation:</p><blockquote><p>Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do terrorism and <cite>nuclear proliferation</cite>. We must mount a counteroffensive and build new infrastructure to <strong>combat antiscience</strong>, just as we have for these other more widely recognized and established threats.</p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-antiscience-movement-is-escalating-going-global-and-killing-thousands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="quote local"><span class="title">(2021) <strong>The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands</strong></span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk">Scientific American</span></span></a></blockquote><p>These calls for prosecution are supported by prominent academics, for example <cite>Harvard University</cite> professor <cite class="active star">David Ropeik</cite>, who declared:</p><blockquote><p><q>These are real deaths... It is absolutely fair to charge that opposition to this particular application of genetically modified food has contributed to the deaths of and injuries to millions of people. The opponents of <cite>Golden Rice</cite> who have caused this harm should be held accountable.</q></p><a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environment/the-human-toll-of-anti-gmo-hysteria" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="quote local"><span class="title"><strong>The Human Toll of Anti-GMO Hysteria: 1.4 Million <q>Life Years</q> Lost Since 2002</strong></span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk">The Breakthrough Institute</span></span></a></blockquote><p>The calls for prosecution have significant consequences for GMO opponents such as for example the people in Philippines who have been vilified as <q class="s">child killers</q> for decades.</p><img data-i="150/sarojeni-v-rengam.jpg" data-no2x="1" data-s="a/philippines/" alt="Sarojeni V Rengam" width="150" height="150" class="right round aspect" data-data-i="150/sarojeni-v-rengam.jpg" data-no2x="1" data-s="a/philippines/"><p>That the calls for prosecution of <q>anti-science</q> are controversial is evidenced by the following notion by <cite class="active star">Sarojeni V Rengam</cite>, executive director of <cite class="link">Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific</cite>, who called GMO Golden Rice a <cite>trojan horse</cite> of the GMO industry:</p><blockquote class="noquote"><p><q>Golden Rice is really a <cite><span class="s">Trojan horse</span></cite>; a public relations stunt pulled by the agribusiness corporations to garner acceptance of genetically engineered (GE) crops and food.</q></p></blockquote><p>This makes the situation highly interesting for philosophy: what exactly does it mean to label people <q>anti-science</q>? According to philosophy professor <cite class="active star">Justin B. Biddle</cite>: <q>the blanket tendency to characterize critics of GMO as anti-science or engaged in a war on science is both misguided and dangerous</q>.</p><h1 class="bighead tophead sub chapter" id="eugenics" data-reader-info="{"title":"Eugenics"}">Investigation of Eugenics</h1><p>The founder of GMODebate.org is a long time defender of <cite>free will</cite> since 2006 through the Dutch critical blog <span class="zk"><img alt="🦋" height="110" data-z="/images/zk.png" width="24" height="24"><span>Zielenknijper.com</span></span> that investigated <cite>eugenics</cite> within a human context.</p><p>The Dutch blog was founded in cooperation with Dutch philosophy professor <cite class="active star">Wim J. van der Steen</cite> who was an intellectual opponent of psychiatry and the idea that the mind originates in the brain.</p><p>The blog contains an investigation of political corruption surrounding the legislation of euthanasia in psychiatry. In 2010 Dutch psychiatrists enforced the right to euthanize their patients by releasing their patients to commit suicide on the streets, which looked like a political extortion tactic.</p><ul class="highlights articles"><li class="zk-quote"><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/zielenknijper/en/euthanasia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="quote big middle noborder no-cite" style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><img data-i="150/trein_ns.jpg" data-no2x="1" data-s="p/investigations/" width="150" height="110" style="margin-bottom: 0;" class="right r5" alt="NS Train" data-data-i="150/trein_ns.jpg" data-no2x="1" data-s="p/investigations/"> <span><span class="title"><strong><span class="text">Political Extortion and Euthanasia in Psychiatry</span></strong></span> <span class="desc"><span class="p">In 2010 Dutch psychiatrists enforced the right to euthanize their patients by releasing their patients to commit suicide on the streets, which looked like a political extortion tactic.</span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk"><span class="zk"><img alt="🦋" height="110" data-z="/images/zk.png" width="24" height="24"><span>Zielenknijper.com</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></li></ul><p>Our article about eugenics reveals that medical psychiatry and eugenics were founded simultaneously and were based on the same core philosophical ideas. The article reveals that the mechanism perspective of mind logically results in eugenic ideologies.</p><ul class="highlights google"><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/eugenics/" class="quote big noborder local"><span class="title"><strong><span class="e">🧬</span> Eugenics on <span class="e" data-anim="nature">🍃</span> Nature</strong></span> <span class="desc">An exploration of the philosophical roots and history of eugenics.</span></a></li></ul><p>French philosopher <cite class="active star">Michel Foucault</cite>:</p><blockquote><p>[Medical] psychiatry was a bridge between the clinical gaze and the evolutionary narrative—a bridge built from bricks of <cite>mechanism</cite>, waiting for <cite>Darwin</cite>'s cement of purpose.</p></blockquote><h1 class="bighead subh">Facilitating The GMO Debate</h1><h3 class="bighead chapter t4" id="research2024" data-reader-info="{"title":"Philosophical Inquiry","emoji":"\ud83e\uddd0","emoji_anim":"monocle"}">Philosophical Inquiry: A Global Survey</h3><img data-i="400x270/founders-greenpeace.jpg" data-no2x="1" data-s="p/index/" width="400" height="270" class="round right" alt="Founders of Greenpeace"><p>On June 27, 2024, the founder of <span class="sitetitle"><span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span> started a global philosophical inquiry into the vision on <cite>eugenics</cite> and GMO among those working in <cite>nature conservation</cite> and animal protection organizations worldwide.</p><p>For the purpose, an advanced AI communication system was developed that transformed the philosophical inquiry process much as the keyboard revolutionized writing. The system translated <q class="s">intent</q> into conversational coherent language with a quality that impressed even a writer in Paris, <span class="e">🇫🇷</span> France.</p><blockquote><p><q>Au fait, votre français est excellent. Vous vivez en France ?</q> (<q>Your French is excellent. Are you from France?</q>)</p></blockquote><p>The project yielded profound conversations with people at tens of thousands of nature protection organizations globally and it was discovered that many organizations were in fact silent on GMO and <cite>animal eugenics</cite>, while in the same time expressing profound enthusiasm and interest in the philosophical inquiry.</p><p class="centered hide-print">Click the link below for an example of the conversation process:</p><p class="centered show-print">An example of the conversation process:</p><div class="flex-center example-conversation"><a href="#" class="quote big noborder show-link" data-config="{"target":"#example-conversation","scroll_target":".example-conversation"}"><img data-i="70x70/dj-white.png" data-s="p/index/" class="left round aspect" width="70" height="70" alt="DJ White"> <span class="title">(2024) <strong>A conversation with DJ White, co-founder of Greenpeace USA.</strong></span></a></div><blockquote class="nomargin" id="example-conversation"><p><strong><span class="sitetitle"><span class="e">🦋</span> <span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span>:</strong> Your focus on <q>large existential threats to conscious life on earth</q> is deeply compelling. How do you see the role of philosophy in addressing these threats? Could a renewed emphasis on philosophical inquiry in marine conservation help to refocus efforts away from <q>techno-futures which will never exist</q> and towards <q>the profound realities of consciousness and abstract communication</q>?</p><blockquote class="nomargin"><p><strong><cite class="active star">DJ White</cite>:</strong> <q>I think philosophy will mainly be important in causing a relatively small number of humans to become hyper-effective and selfless, and to a large degree ego-free, to do what may be possible to make bad situations less bad. This is the core rationale for effectivism. To a small degree, one might get several percent of humans excited about such ideas, but only a very few would be able to act as aware agents of change. This is a departure from the activist notion of starting movements… which can work, but only for some classes of problem, and often will be counterproductive.</q></p></blockquote><p><strong><span class="sitetitle"><span class="e">🦋</span> <span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span></strong> Your experience with marine philosopher <cite class="active star">John C. Lilly</cite> and your own pioneering work in <cite>dolphin intelligence research</cite> is fascinating. It's remarkable to think that your lab was <q>the first to show self-awareness in a nonhuman by human testing standards</q>. This kind of groundbreaking work, combining philosophy and empirical research, is exactly what we believe is needed to address the complex challenges facing our oceans today.</p><p class="img-caption"><img data-i="450/john-c-lilly.jpg" data-no2x="1" data-s="p/index/" width="450" height="188" alt="Philosopher John C. Lilly" class="r5"> <span>Philosopher John C. Lilly</span></p><blockquote class="nomargin"><p><strong><cite class="active star">DJ White</cite>:</strong> <q>There may not be much time left for such stuff now. In particular, and this may be jarring to you, I don’t think that philosophical and research breakthroughs will be sufficient to halt the destruction, nor will any sort of enlightenment of humanity in general. Rather, individuals may be able to try steering events by any methods they can conceive. The notion that high-Karma intellectuals will construct a paradigm which the world then spontaneously follows is one more class of delusion at this point, in terms of being relevant to the current ecological predicament. This view is dissonant to most.</q></p></blockquote><p><strong><span class="sitetitle"><span class="e">🦋</span> <span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span></strong> Your mention of <q>effectivism</q> as distinct from <q>activism</q> is particularly intriguing. It seems to align with our belief at <span class="sitetitle"><span class="e">🦋</span> <span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span> that we need to combine advanced leadership theory with state-of-the-art philosophy on morality to forge new paths for protecting nature and animals. I'm especially interested in how your <q>effectivism</q> course <q>pushes away from anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism as dogma</q>. This approach resonates deeply with our mission.</p><blockquote class="nomargin"><p><strong><cite class="active star">DJ White</cite>:</strong> <q>It'll be beyond the scope of this quick reply to put meat on the bones of the effectivism concept. Briefly, it is built around an <q>ethic of life</q> which is composed of basic statements along the lines of <q>life is better than the lack of life</q>, <q>a complex ecosystem with large life is better than a simple one with single-celled life</q> and so on, and letting this frame <q>good</q> and <q>bad</q> in ecological terms. It is explicitly deep-time and treats the future as real but undetermined except probabilistically. It is framed entirely without reference to humans in particular, except to the extent that humans are one species. The <q>exceptionalism</q> part is demonstrated in the earlier R101 course in which it's demonstrated that humans are delusional, that human intelligence is not really a superpower, that technology will likely not be sustained in the present sense because it isn’t sustainable, and so on. Basically the first course is an unlearning of tropes and nonsense narratives the human world is organized around.</q></p></blockquote><p>More insights from DJ White's philosophy on ocean conservation are available in the following podcast:</p><a href="https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/51-dj-white" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="quote big"><span class="title"><strong><span class="e">🎙️</span> DJ White: <q>Ocean Effectivism</q></strong></span> <span class="source">Source: <span class="lnk">The Great Simplification</span></span></a></blockquote><p>Most organizations admitted never to have given thought to the subject GMO and a common argument given was <q>lack of time</q>. Their willingness to admit this and to engage in a short email conversation on the subject however, revealed a <cite>paradox</cite>.</p><a href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img data-i="200/stop-ecocide-international.png" data-d="200/stop-ecocide-international-dark.png" data-s="a/ecocide/" class="left trans" width="200" height="164" alt="Stop Ecocide International" data-data-i="200/stop-ecocide-international.png" data-d="200/stop-ecocide-international-dark.png" data-s="a/ecocide/"></a><p>For example, in the case of <cite class="link">Stop Ecocide International</cite> it was discovered that the organization had even cooperated with genetic enginering students from <cite>Wageningen University</cite> in the Netherlands but had never addressed the topic GMO, which some employees openly communicated to find <q>strange</q>.</p><img data-i="150/jojo-mehta.jpg" data-s="a/ecocide/" class="right round aspect" width="150" height="100" alt="Jojo Mehta" data-data-i="150/jojo-mehta.jpg" data-s="a/ecocide/"><p><cite class="active star">Jojo Mehta</cite>, the co-founder and CEO of <cite class="active">Stop Ecocide International</cite>, later officially attributed it to <q>lack of time</q> while in the same time expressing enthusiasm for the inquiry.</p><blockquote><p>While the inquiry you are carrying out promises to be of great interest, I'm afraid I may have to disappoint you as far as our involvement is concerned.</p><p>... there are two reasons why SEI cannot engage directly with the GMO debate: firstly, it would be a distraction from, and could place at risk, our core diplomatic goal; secondly even if we wanted to, we do not have the person-hours available to dedicate to a specific issue like this.</p></blockquote><p>The conversation with <cite class="active">Stop Ecocide International</cite> resulted in an article about the GMO based eradication of the <span class="e" data-anim="mosquito">🦟</span> mosquito species, in an attempt to provide an example case for why it is important to address the subject.</p><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/ecocide/" class="quote big middle noborder local ecocide"><img data-i="100/mosquitoe-flower.jpg" data-s="a/ecocide/" class="left round" data-data-i="100/mosquitoe-flower.jpg" data-s="a/ecocide/" width="100" height="100"> <span><span class="title"><strong>Ecocide and The Mosquito Eradication Case</strong></span> <span class="desc"><span class="noto">BBC</span> asks: <q>Should the mosquito species be wiped out from Earth?</q></span></span></a><h1 class="bighead chapter" id="silent" data-reader-info="{"title":"Silent on GMO"}">Silent on GMO</h1><p>The philosophical inquiry revealed that most organizations were in fact silent on GMO and <cite>animal eugenics</cite>, while in the same time expressing profound enthusiasm for the philosophical inquiry and a willingness to contribute.</p><p>The trillion dollar interest behind eugenics and GMO logically creates a situation that hinders intellectual resistance and activism against GMO. People who care for their career are financially pressured to keep silent.</p><p>The pressure to keep silent on GMO is even more severe than common financial pressure within intellectual environments. For example, <cite>WikiLeaks</cite> revealed U.S. diplomatic cables that showed plans for <strong>military-style trade wars to enforce GMO</strong>. The cables showed that US diplomats were working directly for GM companies such as Monsanto and Bayer and that they actively pursued economic coercion strategies to enforce GMO.</p><p>The plans revealed that opponents of GMO were to be systematically punished with <q>economic retaliation</q>.</p><blockquote><p class="reader-link" id="wikileaks" data-reader-link="{"title":"WikiLeaks: US targets opponents of GM crops with economic coercion","emoji":"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8","subchapter":true,"level":2}">Moving to retaliation will make clear that opposing GMO has real costs and could help strengthen pro-biotech voices.</p><p class="quote more big"><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/sri-lanka/#imf-history"><span class="title">(2012) <strong>US to Start <q class="s">Trade Wars</q> with Nations Opposed to GMO</strong></span> </a><span class="source">Source: <a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/sri-lanka/#imf-history"><span class="e">🇱🇰</span> Sri Lanka's 2021 <q>anti-GMO-hysteria</q> and Economic Collapse</a></span></p></blockquote><img data-i="300x300/gmo-poison-campaign.jpg" data-no2x="1" data-s="p/index/" width="300" class="right round" height="300"><p>The motivations to oppose GMO from within the agriculture industry are evidently linked to financial interests in general, and ethics developing in that scope are mostly aligned with consumer demands (anthropocentric interests), which in practice results in scare mongering propaganda for GMO.</p><p>The marketing from the <span class="e">🍒</span> biological food industry often does not involve a defense on behalf of Nature itself and can in practice enforce the core argument of GMO proponents: <q>food security</q>. The GMO industry with a trillion dollar budget can easily out compete and win on the long term when the arguments are reduced to an empirical domain.</p><p>Despite this hostile environment for intellectual opposition against GMO, our article <a href="%1$s">The Silence of <span class="e">🥗</span> Vegans</a> reveals that the real reason for the silence on GMO with vegans and animal rights defenders is likely a <strong>fundamental intellectual inability</strong>.</p><blockquote><p>Whether it's <cite>chimera animals</cite> (<a href="https://www.infogm.org/6942-bioethique-animaux-chimeres-producteurs-organes-humains" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="cite-link">Inf'OGM: <q>Bioethics: chimeric animals producing human organs</q></a>) or <cite>iPS cells</cite> facilitating mass eugenics (<a href="https://www.infogm.org/6959-bioethique-ce-qui-se-cache-derriere-les-cellules-ips" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="cite-link">Inf'OGM: <q>Bioethics: What is behind iPS cells?</q></a>), <strong>vegans say nothing!</strong> Only three anti-animal experimentation associations (and myself) have written op-eds and engaged in significant activism in the Senate.</p><p><cite class="active star">Olivier Leduc</cite> of <a href="https://www.ogmdangers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="cite-link">OGMDangers.org</a></p><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/silence/" class="quote big local"><span class="title"><strong>The Silence of <span class="e">🥗</span> Vegans</strong></span> <span class="desc">An exploration of the reason why many animal rights advocates are <q>silent</q> about eugenics and GMO.</span></a></blockquote><p class="reader-link" id="who" data-reader-link="{"title":"Who will protect nature?","emoji":"\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f"}" style="margin-top: 2em;"><span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-weight: normal; font-size: 30px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-style: italic; line-height: 40px;"><q>Who will actually protect <span class="nature">nature</span> against eugenics?</q></span></p><h3 class="bighead chapter" id="conclusion">Conclusion</h3><p>The science organizations were right in 2021 that anti-GMO activism is fading away and that most people, even <span class="e" data-anim="chipmunk">🐿️</span> animal protectors and <span class="e">🥗</span> vegans, are silent on GMO.</p><p>This implies that <span class="nature">Nature</span> needs an intellectual defense.</p><p>The <span class="sitetitle"><span class="e">🦋</span> <span class="gmo">GMO</span><span class="debate">Debate</span><span class="tld">.org</span></span> project investigates the philosophical roots of scientism, and through that, questions anthropocentrism (the validity scope of GMO) more generally.</p><h3 class="bighead chapter" id="investigations" data-reader-info="[]">Investigations</h3><ul class="highlights articles"><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/eugenics/" class="quote big middle noborder local"><img data-i="150/economist-gmo.jpg" data-s="a/eugenics/" width="150" height="197" style="margin-bottom: 0;object-fit: cover;height: 114px;" class="right r5" alt="Sri Lanka" data-data-i="150/economist-gmo.jpg" data-s="a/eugenics/"> <span><span class="title"><strong><span class="e">🧬</span> Eugenics on <span class="e" data-anim="nature">🍃</span> Nature</strong></span> <span class="desc">An exploration of the philosophical roots and history of eugenics.</span></span></a></li><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/sri-lanka/" class="quote big middle noborder no-cite"><img data-i="150/sri-lanka-protest.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/" width="150" height="112" style="margin-bottom: 0;" class="r5" alt="Sri Lanka" data-data-i="150/sri-lanka-protest.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/"> <span><span class="title"><span class="e">🇱🇰</span> <strong><span class="text">Sri Lanka's 2021 <q>anti-GMO-hysteria</q> and Economic Collapse</span></strong></span> <span class="desc"><span class="p">This investigative report uncovers corruption behind Sri Lanka's 2021 GMO ban and economic collapse. The report exposes economic coercion tactics using the IMF that mirror WikiLeaks revelations about planned <q>trade wars</q> against GMO opponents.</span></span></span></a></li><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/philippines/" class="quote big middle noborder no-cite"><img data-i="150/philippines-gmo.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/" width="150" height="102" style="margin-bottom: 0;" class="r5" alt="Philippines" data-data-i="150/philippines-gmo.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/"> <span><span class="title"><span class="e">🇵🇭</span> <strong><span class="text">Philippines GMO Golden Rice and the <q>Anti-Science</q> Inquisition</span></strong></span> <span class="desc"><span class="p">This investigative report exposes how local voices in Philippines were silenced, global attention for a 2024 Supreme Court GMO ban deflected to <img data-z="/i/p/index/greenpeace-logo.svg" width="142" height="22" alt="greenpeace" align="absmiddle" class="greenpeace" data-data-z="/i/p/index/greenpeace-logo.svg">, and the <q class="s">anti-science</q> narrative weaponized against GMO opponents.</span></span></span></a></li><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/mexico/" class="quote big middle noborder no-cite"><img data-i="150/mexico.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/" width="150" height="100" style="margin-bottom: 0;" class="r5" alt="Mexico" data-data-i="150/mexico.jpg" data-s="p/investigations/"> <span><span class="title"><span class="e">🇲🇽</span> <strong><span class="text">Mexico's GMO Corn Ban and <q class="s">Following the Science</q> Rhetoric</span></strong></span> <span class="desc"><span class="p">This investigative report exposes the hidden strategy behind Mexico's GMO ban. The report reveals how <q class="s">following the science</q> rhetoric is used to enforce GMO adoption against public will, revealing a pattern seen across multiple countries.</span></span></span></a></li><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/ecocide/" class="quote big middle noborder no-cite"><img data-i="150/brazil-ecocide-protest.png" data-s="a/ecocide/" width="150" style="margin-bottom: 0;" class="r5" alt="Mexico" data-data-i="150/brazil-ecocide-protest.png" data-s="a/ecocide/" height="99"> <span><span class="title"><span class="e">🇧🇷</span> <strong><span class="text">Brazil's GMO Mosquito Disaster</span></strong></span> <span class="desc"><span class="p">This investigative report exposes the corruption behind Brazil's GMO mosquito disaster. The report reveals that the mosquitoes were engineered for insecticide resistance and significantly increased agression towards humans, resulting in a replacement of native mosquito species and a worsening of disease causation.</span></span></span></a></li><li><a href="https://gmodebate.github.io/moss-balls/" class="quote big middle noborder no-cite"><img data-i="150/moss-ball-moving-around-rocks-600.jpg" data-s="a/moss-balls/" width="150" style="margin-bottom: 0;" class="r5" alt="Mexico" data-data-i="150/moss-ball-moving-around-rocks-600.jpg" data-s="a/moss-balls/" height="94"> <span><span class="title"><span class="e">🟢</span> <strong><span class="text">The Moss Ball Ban</span></strong></span> <span class="desc"><span class="p">In February 2021 the founder of GMODebate.org posted a message on Houzz.com to request attention for the idea that plants are living creatures for which the concept <q>happiness</q> may be applicable. 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