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What do you think of GMO's?

Poll: What do you think of GMO's?
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They're good and we need them
79.31%
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The science is still out and we need more research
10.34%
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They're more harmful than they're worth and we should do away with them
10.34%
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What do you think of GMO's?
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
January 4, 2015 at 12:31 pm
(January 3, 2015 at 4:53 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: I'm not a fan of "free market" in general. The market should be free...to an extent. We should have learned our lesson by this point in time as to when greed should be kept in check.

Yeah, I agree (although I'm sure we disagree on the extent.) When I was young I was a hardcore free market libertarian. I think it's a viewpoint for the idealistic, the young, and the stupid. The free market fails way too often. Take something simple like how the free market gave us a bazillion different cell phone chargers. A government regulation made it so now we don't have to deal with that shit. That sort of stuff happens on a much grander scale, as with Monsanto.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
January 4, 2015 at 12:57 pm (This post was last modified: January 4, 2015 at 1:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
IDK if it's really the greed that needs to be kept in check. Even when we regulate there's still the component of greed (if we're going to use that language) between various competitors for the mandated product or standard.

Its not really greed vs "something else" - it's central planning vs market correction (imo). Some measure of both seems to be the best way to go forward, and either taken too far (or without the mediating effect of the other) collapses like flan in a cupboard.

The problem with market correction is that it is unguided by the metrics were likely to use when we discuss it. The problem with central planning is and always has been -who's doing the guiding/for what-.
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
January 4, 2015 at 2:09 pm
(January 4, 2015 at 12:57 pm)Rhythm Wrote: IDK if it's really the greed that needs to be kept in check. Even when we regulate there's still the component of greed (if we're going to use that language) between various competitors for the mandated product or standard.

Its not really greed vs "something else" - it's central planning vs market correction (imo). Some measure of both seems to be the best way to go forward, and either taken too far (or without the mediating effect of the other) collapses like flan in a cupboard.

The problem with market correction is that it is unguided by the metrics were likely to use when we discuss it. The problem with central planning is and always has been -who's doing the guiding/for what-.

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