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It never ceases to amaze me, how much controversy the name Monsanto stirs up. The waters around this company are so murky, that it's less a question of whether
by pavement 9y ago
It never ceases to amaze me, how much controversy the name Monsanto stirs up.
The waters around this company are so murky, that it's less a question of whether the company operates an unregulated extrajudicial campaign against public awareness of their wares and activity, but rather, what's their spend on it, and how deep do they go?
Food security is frighteningly politicized, to the point of bald militarization (see: Canada's maple syrup). Almost nothing would surprise me.
- matt4077 9y agoWell that would be my favourite conspiracy ever, considering the people running it must be the most incompetent evil scheming overlords ever. If they're running an "unregulated extrajudicial campaign against public awareness", it is a spectacular failure, considering Monsanto is among the most-hated companies on the planet. Can we somehow get them hired by Syria's government?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoMaybe they simply don't give a damn, because they realize general population is not their target market, and so it doesn't matter what regular people think of them?
- thrillgore 9y agoAnd yet as an agricultural company, almost every person on earth is touched by their products or intellectual property. Regular people don't care but 7 billion potential and unaware users of their products might...
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThe question is - does "7 billion potential and unaware users" becoming aware affects their bottom-line? If it doesn't, then they probably won't care. I'm not saying it is good, but that's how things work. That's e.g. why boycotts generally don't work.
- reacweb 9y agoConsidering the huge number of TV reportage about how mosanto is evil and the tiny number of trials for defamation, I consider that anything sold by mosanto shall be avoided.
- notatoad 9y agoWait, what about canada's maple syrup is militarized?
- tripzilch 9y agoProbably something to do with this: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=strategic+maple+syrup https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=strategic+maple+...