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It is precise to call Monsanto and Bayer the biggest threats to food security the human species has ever faced.
by aa-jv 4y ago
It is precise to call Monsanto and Bayer the biggest threats to food security the human species has ever faced.
- gcheong 4y agoCertainly could say something about how concentrating power in a few corporations is not a good thing but that is a result of capitalism under a lax anti-trust environment and all companies play under the same incentive. Not in terms of the technology though.
- aa-jv 4y agoBayer/Monsanto certainly have set the standard for corrupt control over the worlds food resources, though, and they're definitely playing evil games in Ukraine, for example ..
- gcheong 4y agoAnd Greenpeace and similar ilk wanted to block golden rice which could potentially saves many lives and prevent blindness in areas where vitamin A deficiency is common. They care about nothing but to demonize a technology for the purposes of their misguided ideology https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golde... . As far as I know Monsanto/Bayer do not own any IP around it.
- epgui 4y agoI don't agree with this.