“Patrick Moore, a Canadian scientist and environmentalist and the former president of Greenpeace Canada, recently came into contact with a journalist from a premium French cable station. The journalist identified Moore as a Monsanto lobbyist and asked him to drink a glass of Roundup Herbicide, the world’s most popular and widely used weed-killer.

According to an article published by Forbes, Moore is not a Monsanto lobbyist. However, in the same article, Forbes provides a link to Moore’s Wikipedia page, which states that he is “a paid spokesman for the nuclear industry, the logging industry, and genetic engineering industry.” And other sources would seem to concur. For example, the Asian Pacific Post quotes Greenpeace as saying that he “exploits long gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes.””
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