[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Nah read into it, the guy had planned all-GM and had kicked up a shitstorm with the "cross-pollination" theory to try and get away with it. Unfortunately reality matters in court so he hit sued (Greenpeace never told you that part)

[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago

Greenpeace, as usual, argues against GM by jesting towards a nebulous cabal of shady globalist BigAg companies. They are endlessly malicious and no amount of benefit can ever be a convincing reason to take even one step back on this issue. This is a classic case of paranoia and it cannot be reasoned with.

A quick reality check on some of those points. Many of them are based on a paranoid belief that the Golden Rice will somehow invade and take over. We are discussing introducing a new variety, not erasing any - farmers will continue to grow other varieties. Thus, many of the arguments about monoculture and control over seed fall apart. Syngenta have excluded smallholder farmers from paying licensing fees, so they'd get the seeds are a reasonable price. Lastly, countries which grow GM also grow organic crops - the farmers fearing losing their licenses are swept up in the paranoia. There is also no evidence of GM genes finding their way into other varieties in any meaningful amount. If this was a common occurrence, maintaining any discrete variety would be impossible (and we've been doing it for over a century).

[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

Ok so no real argument, just whining. Lucky you, having been told to believe all the right stuff while others were told wrong.

[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

A. I'm not a farmer, I'm a scientist. B. All herbicides are pesticides... look it up. It's like how all horses are mammals but not all mammals are horses

[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Do you wanna present an actual argument or just whine because reality doesn't suit you?

[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Right after you drink a pint of long-trusted household products, like lye or ammonia

[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

It is a pesticide?

[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 months ago

Can we stop spreading this bullshit anti-glyphosate propaganda? educate yourselves

You wanna know what else has been linked to cancer, and with actual good evidence for it? Hot water. source

Go touch grass and worry about the things you should really worry about, like the fact your food system is set up for collapse with 2 decades and you'd better hope big Ag comes up with something brilliant cuz otherwise you're in the shit unless you're at least partially self-sufficient.

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