Yes, it's a good clip, I suggest watching it from the start to the very end and then making up your mind.
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.
Moore tells the interviewer that one "could drink a whole quart of [Roundup]" without any harm. When Moore is offered a glass of the weedkiller, however, he refuses and says "I'm not stupid." - Why did he bring it up when he was not going to follow it through.
Saying you are prepared to drink it is a gimmick. The same basic idea has been used a million times before for everything from asbestos to tobacco to coal dust to lead paint. Common enough for it to be parodied in a 25 year old episode of the Simpsons ("Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish").
Also Patrick Moore is a professional science denier. He doesn't deserve respect from anybody.
Claiming you could drink a quarter of it implies you believe it is food grade. It's extreme my disingenuous to hypothesize that a Roundup bottle imparts more health hazard than the contents.
>Claiming you could drink a quarter of it implies you believe it is food grade.
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.
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.