Video: Monsanto Lobbyist Said It's 'Safe To Drink A Quart Of Pesticide', But Ran When Offered A Glass

By R. Siva Kumar - 28 Mar '15 03:55AM

A Monsanto supporter said that it was safe to drink "a quart" of Monsanto's Roundup pesticide. However, he seemed to eat his words when he didn't drink it.

When he was offered a sip of the pesticide, he just got up and walked out of the interview at the sets, according to rt.

Patrick Moore clarified to a Canal+ journalist that glyphosate, the ingredient used most in the world's most popular weed killer, did not cause cancer in Argentina.

"You can drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you," he insisted.

Hence, when a journalist told him that a cup of the herbicide was being made for him, Moore winced and said he was not stupid.

Then why didn't he reply to whether or not it was harmful, Moore replied: "It's not dangerous to humans." In fact, many even try to commit suicide by drinking Roundup, however they "fail regularly".

"Interview me about golden rice, that's what I'm talking about," he said, according to rawstory.

At that point, Moore declared that the "interview is finished."

"That's a good way to solve things," the interviewer quipped.

"Jerk!" Moore grumbled as he just got up and stormed off.

A biologist, Moore had at first supported Greenpeace and then became a lobbyist for the nuclear, logging and genetic engineering industries.

Last week, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer had found and put out in the press the information that glyphosate was "probably carcinogenic to humans." They explored studies that suggested that the chemical exposure could lead to the risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The glyphosate weed killers had been introduced in 1974, but they galloped in popularity in the mid-1990s when they started to develop corn, soy and cotton seeds genetically engineered to resist the herbicide. In a 2012 study by Washington State University, the document said that the rise of "Roundup Ready" crops just increased the use of glyphosate.

Once the report was published, Monsanto then tried to get the WHO to call back its report. The company said on Tuesday that the conclusions were biased and invalid.

"We question the quality of the assessment," Philip Miller, Monsanto vice president of global regulatory affairs, said Tuesday in an interview. "The WHO has something to explain."