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‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice
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You are exactly the type of person I'm talking about 🤦♂️.
The technology of GMOs is awesome, it will help us solve several problems, some related to food supplies, and other problems in different areas like healthcare. We can develop food with more nutrients. Crops resistant to most common plagues. We use it to create insulin without needing to harvest tons of pig's pancreas. The technology itself is completely safe and full of potential.
But most uneducated people think that "GMOs = mOnSaNtO" and want to ban all of them only by the actions of a company that no longer exists (yeah, now owned by Bayer, but whatever). And even most of that bad reputation was caused by myths and defamation. Just because one company that developed GMOs was a dickhead doesn't mean that GMOs are bad, in the same way that electric cars should not be banned because of Elon Musk.
Edit to add: like with any technology, it needs to be extensively regulated to prevent monopolies or other abuses.
Oh you're so naive.
I love how you're all like 'monsanto doesn't exist they're owned by Bayer a
As if Bayer was more reputable somehow.
We're literally facing dangerous monopolies trying to corner the market of our basic needs. And you're sitting here like YEAH TECHNOLOGY IS AWESOME AND SAFE LET'S GOOOOOOO.
Literally you are repeating the same argument. Come back when you have a new one.
I am repeating the same argument because the reply to my previous argument was 'but what about this other greedy seedy company?'
I'll have a new one when you guys have a new one.
Also, I have family that are large-scale farmers, so they have first-hand experience with agriculture practices and technology. I have other family members that are researchers on soil ecology and related fields. And I was a researcher (at a completely unrelated field, I admit) and I read lots of literature about the subject, because I had access to all scientific journals at my university. But yeah, "I'm naive", lol.
Knowledge and naivety are two separate things.