star-wounded-east:over-ambitious-moth-priest:TL;DR People are using stickers to label things they fi
star-wounded-east:over-ambitious-moth-priest:TL;DR People are using stickers to label things they find evil because of corporations and genetic modification. DO NOT DO THIS SHIT. IT MAKES LIFE DIFFICULT FOR GROCERY STORE EMPLOYEES AND DOES NOT AFFECT CORPORATIONS. GMO AND GE ARE NOT IN THEMSELVES EVIL farseerscreed:lord-kitschener:brynndragon:madgastronomer:pufflehug:ectoemeritus:getoutofmyheadcharles:lugnut64:thebearqueen:candymandie:sexhaver:westernherbalism:The Label It Yourself (#LIY) campaign is a decentralized, autonomous grassroots campaign born out of our broken food system. We have been asking our government to label food products so we can make educated decisions about what we eat. The government has ignored our requests and so we are taking matters into our own hands.Get your labels at www.labelityourself.org or create our own!Hey, so the grocery stores who are hit by this are going to have to go through a lot of shit over those stickers. They will have to either remove them or, if they cannot, probably reclaim every product stickered. It won’t be the companies that make the products who deal with it directly, it will be the minimum wage employees at the store fronts—and the way distribution works, those stores are miles down the chain from producers. I get this campaign and the sentiment behind it, but just like trashing the office of a corporation will only force the ill-paid janitor to have a bad day, I don’t think this will do anything except make trouble for people who have nothing to do with decision making.bolding minemy husband works in a grocery storedon’t do this shit you end up hurting the little people, not the big peopleDat bolded text. But seriously, read it, because shit like this pisses me off too. It’s NEVER the corporations that have to deal with things like this. It’s always a poorly paid underling who has to deal with your passive aggressive antics. Not only that, but some of them will probably be punished because your shenanigans happen during their shift. Please think before you ruin an innocent person’s day.Fuckers do this all the time to us and I have to spend time out of my day to remove each one and 1506 the items that are ruined. This comes out of our store’s budget and can eventually make us go under budget which has all of our hours cut. Fuck every single one of you for this stupid fucking stunt. You’re hurting people like me who are trying to get enough money to go back to college.THE WORST PART ABOUT THIS IS THAT GMO’S ARE FUCKING AWESOME AND HAVE HELPED SAVE TENS OF MILLIONS OF LIVES AT LEAST AROUND THE WORLDBY DEFACING THEM YOU’RE RUINING THE REPUTATION OF A LIFE-SAVING TECHNOLOGY THAT IS PREVENTING STARVATION IN THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES THAT NORMALLY YOU DOUCHEBAGS TRY TO PROTECTTHE SAME PEOPLE WHO PULL THIS SHIT ARE THE ONES WHO CRY ABOUT PRIVILEGE AND CHARITY AND THEY ARE LITERALLY ALMOST CAUSING THE DEATHS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE EVERY TIME THEY THREATEN A MAJOR GMO OR GE CROP BECAUSE THEY ARE CONVINCING THIRD-WORLD LEADERS TO NOT OBTAIN THEMJESUS FUCKING CHRIST TUMBLR ARE YOU TRYING TO END LIVES HERESERIOUSLY YOU MOTHER FUCKERS NEED TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD BEFORE YOU START THIS SHIT.THERE’S OVER 40 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE INTO THIS THAT PROVES THAT THERE’S NOT A DAMN THING WRONG WITH IT SO SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTHS AND STOP TRYING TO END AN INDUSTRY THAT IS ACTIVELY WORKING TO CURE WORLD HUNGERAll of the above stuff. Don’t be dicks people.All of the bold.Monsanto may be evil, but GMO foods are safe, and have been an enormous boon to many parts of the world. Not all GMO foods are developed by Monsanto or anything like them. As mentioned above, many are developed by humanitarian scientists in an effort to combat world hunger.The problem is not and never has been genetically modified crops. The problem is greedy fucks and corporations run amok.People seriously need to understand the difference between “We made this tomato more resistant to frost by splicing in a salmon gene" (science is awesome!) and “We made this plant resistant to toxic chemicals so we can spray them all over everything ever" (corporate greed is awful!). Labeling both of those things as GMOs is doing everyone a serious disservice. We need a new name for what Monsanto does. Toxic gengineering perhaps?(And yes, the bolded stuff is also really important, I’m glad it’s been solidly covered. I’m a biologist, so gengineering is much more my bailiwick.)well look at that, kids who have obviously never had to work a minimum-wage job are trying to be ~aktuhvists~The above posts have summarized why the labelityourself project is terrible and why GMOs are generally awesome really well, so I just wanted to add a note of technical expertise for the OP or anyone else who happens to come across this and wants to know more—I’m a plant biologist and I’ve actually done genetic engineering projects, so I’d be happy to answer questions on how it works.Because I know that it’s natural to be wary of things that we don’t quite understand, so I’d like to be able to shed some light if I can. First of all, the stickers thing is not going to help.However, there seems to be some misconceptions here about GMO’s in general. http://www.organicauthority.com/foodie-buzz/eight-reasons-gmos-are-bad-for-you.html8 Reasons why GMOs are bad for you. And there is more information out there that you should educate yourselves on before you make bold statements about GMOs. Many countries (apart from the US) require products with GMOs to be marked. And many studies have proven that there are a lot of unknowns with using GMOs, and yet there are also many proven, negative consequences to the practice of putting GMOs in our food. Also, GMOs do not help third world countries. From the link I just shared: “GMOs are not the answer for global food security. Genetically engineered crops have shown no increase in yield and no decrease in pesticide use. In many cases other farm technology has proven much more successful, and even Monsanto agrees that its genetically engineered crops yield less than conventional farming.”I took an environmental class and we covered this in one of the lectures. GMOs are bad for us and bad for other organisms as well. -- source link