Fuck, maybe some of ostreams retardation is rubbing off on me but I'm watching stuff about monsanto right now and I need to stop myself imagining doing a "little tomfoolery" to their management and ceo

Am I turning into a reactionary libtard? Maybe its not so bad after all...

GMO bad I concur

I also only want to eat healthy animals that had a good life and were murdered hopefully in a fun way instead of a miserable one. I'm a big carnivorous eater but I still care about their spirit, if one will. also it's just dumb to eat sickly animals? like if you can't even kill them right I don't trust you to raise them right, frankly

Monsanto is pretty shady

I'm so glad this stuff is finally breaking into the mainstream, I was worried I'd be lumped forever with the conspiracy nuts in casual conversation for believing this and Teflon.

Is that the Veritasium video on Youtube?

Actually, the Veritasium video improved my view on Monsanto somewhat, because I somehow thought their crops were infertile / physically unable to be replanted, whereas apparently it's just illegal to replant them and they will sue you into poverty if you do so, and they only use GMO to outcompete natural crops.

The argument for that clause by the way was that GMO crops may escape into the wild to unforeseeable effect. I wonder if that was ever a legitimate concern or just part of their PR campaign to justify the transparently extortionate license.

The infertile crops are things like seedless bananas. These are artificially created using grafting. All bananas are 100% genetically identical. Not dangerous for us, but the bananas run the risk of being wiped out by some disease. No genetic diversity means no resistance.

What Monsanto does kinda makes sense, but the way things turned out makes them evil bastards that would sell their mother for every little bit of profit.

@lorentz That's intentional, they want it to be able to spread. They sued a farmer in to the ground because ANOTHER farmer's crops fertilised his