More on GMWatch squirming and doozer

Has GMWatch (or their big funders) bought lies in Canada???

In a desperate attempt to gain credibility GMWatch has rolled out a anti-GM consultant, Rob McRae to contradict me. McRae is a long time paid lackey of Greenpeace.

In a hilarious farce McRae claims, without any evidence, all sorts of things about his visits to Birbank Farms......in fact there is now evidence he has changed his claims.

Just shows that anyone can be used...oh well, I ain't going to argue cos I'm sure he is 110% correct!!!(wink)

However, maybe McRae can explain how his ex-Greenpeace paymaster Michael Khoo...who now works with Fenton Communication in DC...
http://www.fenton.com/pages/1_about/1_bios/4_dc/mkhoo.htm
can claim....

"As national campaigner for Greenpeace Canada, Khoo developed and
launched the organization's first biotechnology campaign in 1999,
which doubled Canadian public awareness of the issue and led to the
first international treaty on biotechnology."

wow, what a doozer!!!.........Excuse me but the Cartagena Protocol had nothing to do with Michael Khoo or Greenpeace's 1999 campaign!!!....even the time lines don't match....see below.
To claim otherwise is a sever case of CV exaggeration...again hilarious but sad

see http://www.cbd.int/biosafety/background.shtml

Pursuant to Article 19, paragraph 3, of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, the Conference of the Parties, by its decision II/5,
established an Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety to
develop a draft protocol on biosafety, specifically focusing on
transboundary movement of any living modified organism resulting from
modern biotechnology that may have adverse effect on the conservation
and sustainable use of biological diversity. The Open-ended Ad Hoc
Working Group on Biosafety held six meetings between July 1996 and
February 1999. At its conclusion, the Working Group submitted a draft
text of the Protocol, as well as the outstanding concerns of the
Parties, for consideration by Conference of the Parties at its first
extraordinary meeting, convened for the purpose of adopting a
protocol on biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

In accordance with decision IV/3, the first extraordinary meeting of
the Conference of the Parties was opened on 22 February 1999, in
Cartagena, Colombia. The Conference of the Parties was not able to
finalize its work in the time available. As a result, by decision EM-
I/1, the Conference of the Parties suspended its first extraordinary
meeting and agreed that it should be reconvened as soon as possible
and in any event no later than the fifth meeting of the Conference of
the Parties.

The resumed session took place in Montreal from 24 to 29 January 2000
and was preceded by regional and interregional informal consultations
from 20 to 23 January 2000 at the same venue. On 29 January 2000, the
Conference of the Parties, by its decision EM-I/3, adopted the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological
Diversity and approved interim arrangements pending its entry into
force. It established an open-ended ad hoc Intergovernmental
Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (ICCP) with a
mandate to undertake the preparations necessary for the first meeting
of the Parties to the Protocol.