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Yeah... This was for WARFARE not agricultural purposes..

Wingman4l7 11y ago
An alternate interpretation is that the OP doesn't want Monsanto to grow their food because of their involvement in the military-industrial complex and poisoning of the environment, not because their defoliant was contaminated.
- heliumcraft 11y ago
  That's fine. Don't tell him about Boeing and Airbus next time he is flying :)
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Or IBM. But if you do and his head starts to hurt so he grabs some Aspirin, don't ever bring up Bayer. ;).
    - heliumcraft 11y ago
      Or Fanta. ;)
      - briantakita 11y ago
        All of these companies should have been shut down for immoral practices. If somebody acts shady in the past, it doesn't exactly reassure me to trust them in the present.
        TeMPOraL 11y ago
        It's a view I used to hold, but now I'm not that sure of it. First, a company today is not run by the same people as it was 40 or 80 years ago. So the question is, how much of that immoral past is in the "company DNA", and how much of it was just the old management? Secondly, shutting down such company would work if and only if you went and jailed people responsible for atrocities. Otherwise, they'll just join other companies or start new ones and continue to do evil. And since what you really need is bad people in jail, you may as well just leave their company be.
        briantakita 11y ago
        The ecosystem of the company is what creates the immoral behavior. It's the combination of the management, shareholder expectations, etc. If the shareholders are lax in demanding moral behavior, then immoral behavior will result. The company should absolutely be shut down. > Otherwise, they'll just join other companies or start new ones and continue to do evil Actually, nobody will want to hire them. After all, nobody wants to lose their money in a company that was shut down.
    - hn_ 11y ago
      Bayer has got to have the worst history of any company still around. They used concentration camp slave labor and performed medical experiments on them as well. Then someone who went to prison for 7 years for war crimes was appointed the head of the board when he got out of jail. Of course they also invented heroin as a "non-addictive substitute for morphine."
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Opposition on moral ground would be fair, but in case of Agent Orange there's enough blame to go around that one should probably put more blame on the US government, and to be consistent, avoid food advertised by them.

An alternate interpretation is that the OP doesn't want Monsanto to grow their food because of their involvement in the military-industrial complex and poisoning of the environment, not because their defoliant was contaminated.

heliumcraft 11y ago
That's fine. Don't tell him about Boeing and Airbus next time he is flying :)
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Or IBM. But if you do and his head starts to hurt so he grabs some Aspirin, don't ever bring up Bayer. ;).
  - heliumcraft 11y ago
    Or Fanta. ;)
    - briantakita 11y ago
      All of these companies should have been shut down for immoral practices. If somebody acts shady in the past, it doesn't exactly reassure me to trust them in the present.
      - TeMPOraL 11y ago
        It's a view I used to hold, but now I'm not that sure of it. First, a company today is not run by the same people as it was 40 or 80 years ago. So the question is, how much of that immoral past is in the "company DNA", and how much of it was just the old management? Secondly, shutting down such company would work if and only if you went and jailed people responsible for atrocities. Otherwise, they'll just join other companies or start new ones and continue to do evil. And since what you really need is bad people in jail, you may as well just leave their company be.
        briantakita 11y ago
        The ecosystem of the company is what creates the immoral behavior. It's the combination of the management, shareholder expectations, etc. If the shareholders are lax in demanding moral behavior, then immoral behavior will result. The company should absolutely be shut down. > Otherwise, they'll just join other companies or start new ones and continue to do evil Actually, nobody will want to hire them. After all, nobody wants to lose their money in a company that was shut down.
  - hn_ 11y ago
    Bayer has got to have the worst history of any company still around. They used concentration camp slave labor and performed medical experiments on them as well. Then someone who went to prison for 7 years for war crimes was appointed the head of the board when he got out of jail. Of course they also invented heroin as a "non-addictive substitute for morphine."
TeMPOraL 11y ago
Opposition on moral ground would be fair, but in case of Agent Orange there's enough blame to go around that one should probably put more blame on the US government, and to be consistent, avoid food advertised by them.