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blackswallowtailbutterfly: finnishrogue:blackswallowtailbutterfly: that1betch:madamehearthwitch: aniseandspearmint: brunhiddensmusings: ferrousferrule: programmerhumour: Funny how that works I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us. what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’ ^^^ THIS SO MUCH THIS I mean, there’s legitimate concern about how all our bananas are genetically identical so they’re extremely susceptible to disease. Or the development of seedless fruits/veggies is actually about forcing farmers to buy more GMO seeds every year, and is also something that could easily threaten the world’s food supply if Monsanto got taken out. (If you try to Google about this you just get articles about how seeds are intellectual property and other pro-Monsanto propaganda.) All of the above. Plus creating foods with vitamins and minerals, etc. they don’t usually have makes it very difficult for people who have to be on certain specialized diets if the regular version isn’t available in the grocery stores. Plus… a lack of biodiversity. If one plant is significantly better at adapting to the local environment than basically any other plant that naturally grows in that area, you can bet your ass that’s the only thing companies want to grow in that area. Which then leads to massive monocultures and eventually mass extinction of thousands of plant species, bugs, birds and wild animals. Obviously that’s an issue that doesn’t concern only GMO plants, but when GMO techniques are mainly being funded by profit-oriented psychopaths who jizz their pants over the thought of science backing up their wild fantasies of eternal economic growth… I just don’t have it in me to believe that we would ever end up anywhere near solving humanitarian crises with GMO. The thing is… humans have never permanently settled down to lands where there wasn’t enough edible, nutritious food to eat. The reason we live where we do is because we were able to find PLENTY of food to consume from these areas. We migrated next to big bodies of waters to get enough fish, crustaceans, kelp and seaweed. We migrated next to forests and oases to find berries, fruits, insects, game meat and mushrooms. We migrated next to lush groves and wetlands to grow fertile crops. Natural catastrophes and wars aside, WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD ENOUGH VITAMINS AND MINERALS NOT JUST TO SURVIVE, BUT THRIVE. WHY IN THE FUCKING HELL WOULD WE BE SO DUMB THAT WE SETTLED DOWN TO A LAND THAT ONLY PROVIDED US WITH A BAG OF FUCKING RICE? It’s because WE AREN’T. It’s just that our lands have been stolen from us, our normal nomad lifestyles have been made impossible (by land owners and other such thieves) and our old traditional knowledge of edible plants and animals (all the millions of them) has been erased by monoculture-inspired corporate giants. I just find it fucking audacious that a bunch of capitalist conglomerates are stealing ALL arable land from people,forcing them to become workers in these lands with little to no compensation forcing them to grow monocrops of one plant onlyallowing the prices of that one particular plant to drop in order to compete against other companiesmaking it impossible for these poor people to buy anything else but this one type of food they produce in their OWN lands that are no longer theirs, because they can’t afford to buy anything elsestarving them to death because ob-fucking-viously this one plant cannot sustain them forever and cannot give them all the nutrients and vitamins they needhelping more conflicts, humanitarian crises and droughts to begin with their agricultural practicesAND THEN FUCKING THENtell them “Oh I don’t think we should pay you any more money or give you food for free, but hey, since you enjoy eating that one plant, let’s modify so that it gives you a little bit more vitamins, just so you won’t die. I mean, you wouldn’t be able to work on the fields if you were dead, now would you?” I fucking wonder why people are so hyper-focused on whether genetic modification as a scientific method is trustworthy or safe, when the real question should be WHY THE FUCK DID WE END UP IN A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE CANNOT FIND ENOUGH NUTRITIOUS FOOD TO EAT IN A PLANET FULL OF NUTRITIOUS FOOD?Sure, let’s make plants that can survive from nuclear fallouts, climate change and the Sun dropping from the fucking sky one day. Sure, let’s have a discussion on how people have always modified plant genes in one way or another and yadda yadda. But let’s not fucking pretend that poverty only appears because of happenstance. Let’s not pretend that it’s okay to be a thief, slave-driver, colonialist and a climate terrorist as long as you also add some fucking vitamin A to your rice crops.You can’t simultaneously create a problem and then pretend you’re a hero for “solving” one fraction of it. No, not even if you’re a “sweet lil scientist” who understands how GMO aCtUaLLy works. You work for corporate giants and help create monocultures, so it gets real tiresome to hear you falsely identifying yourself with the farmers who favored orange carrots over white ones hundreds of years ago. You’re not the fucking same and you know it. I mean, you wouldn’t be able to work on the fields if you were dead, now would you?I was going to make this point too, but didn’t have it in me. -- source link