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>You'll also find more people on the left being skeptical about GMOs I've found it very strange that the same people who talk about the greed of Big Pharma and

>You'll also find more people on the left being skeptical about GMOs I've found it very strange that the same people who talk about the greed of Big Pharma and their price gouging and selling prescriptions to people who don't need them think the same big pharma companies wouldn't take advantage of a pandemic to make a fortune oh well, my Pfizer and Moderna stock is doing great. Make sure to tell your friends to get your booster

ericbarrett 5y ago
This has been my take on it. Not that GMOs will poison your body or anything woo like that. Rather, it's an enormous amount of power to give to an industry with tight margins and few scruples. I can't help but envision vegetables full of simple sugars, pesticides, and so forth in their very DNA. It's a complex picture and there are no doubt great cases for its use, e.g. golden rice. But this is the same industry that sprays RoundUp on wheat just to ripen it[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
- destitude 5y ago
  And also sues farmers who save seeds from the plants to use next year. You have to pay the company every year for new seed instead of being able to just save some seed back and never having to purchase more again. Gives complete power to the companies and dependency on them.
  - UncleMeat 5y ago
    There are a number of reasons to be skeptical of agribusiness, but this one is especially overblown. The widely known suits around "saved seeds" were not about that specifically.
  - pfdietz 5y ago
    So, you're against hybrid crop varieties? Because you can't save the seeds of those and get the same results. You aren't at the mercy of the companies supplying the seeds because they compete with each other. Also, presumably if this were the objection then something like Roundup-Ready soybeans would now be ok, since those are now off patent. You're ok with those now, right?

ericbarrett 5y ago

This has been my take on it. Not that GMOs will poison your body or anything woo like that. Rather, it's an enormous amount of power to give to an industry with tight margins and few scruples. I can't help but envision vegetables full of simple sugars, pesticides, and so forth in their very DNA. It's a complex picture and there are no doubt great cases for its use, e.g. golden rice. But this is the same industry that sprays RoundUp on wheat just to ripen it[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation

destitude 5y ago
And also sues farmers who save seeds from the plants to use next year. You have to pay the company every year for new seed instead of being able to just save some seed back and never having to purchase more again. Gives complete power to the companies and dependency on them.
- UncleMeat 5y ago
  There are a number of reasons to be skeptical of agribusiness, but this one is especially overblown. The widely known suits around "saved seeds" were not about that specifically.
- pfdietz 5y ago
  So, you're against hybrid crop varieties? Because you can't save the seeds of those and get the same results. You aren't at the mercy of the companies supplying the seeds because they compete with each other. Also, presumably if this were the objection then something like Roundup-Ready soybeans would now be ok, since those are now off patent. You're ok with those now, right?