New roots

[Jaysyn]

W00t!

THIS is the shit we should be concentrating on... Fuck you, you elitist assholes and your problems with GM crops.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...ng-biofuel

I don't have a beef with GM crops, I have a beef with companies like Monsanto potentially doing very, very shady things with things like "Terminator Genes" & suing farmers because their crops were inadvertently wind-pollinated by their "Roundup Ready" GM plants.

GM Food may end up saving the world, but Monsanto is shady as fuck. My father's side of my family got fairly wealthy from onion, peanut & tobacco farming, I don't like the idea of having to have a "seed license" & I don't think living things should be able to be patented.

Monsanto did not directly try to explain how the Roundup Ready seed got there. "Whether Mr. Schmeiser knew of the matter or not matters not at all," said Roger Hughes, a Monsanto attorney quoted by The Western Producer, a Canadian agriculture magazine. A canola scientist, in an affidavit for Monsanto in the trial, said Schmeiser's theories of cross-pollination by wind and bees did not make sense to him, given the purity of plants grown based on Monsanto's tests. "It was a very frightening thing, because they said it does not matter how it gets into a farmer's field; it's their property," Schmeiser said, in an interview with Agweek. "If it gets in by wind or cross-pollination, that doesn't matter."

Does the above sound like a sane point of view?

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If the corporations would get off their capitalist fat cat asses and actually help people...

They don't make money that way so there is no benefit for them to do so.