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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 13 Dec 2017

    "How I Got Converted to G.M.O. Food" - former anti-GMO activist explains that it's the Green version of climate change denial.https://nyti.ms/2rDgV0V 

    8:13 AM - 13 Dec 2017
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      2. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Thank you for sharing this. The demonization of GMOs is like the agricultural equivalent of anti-vaxxers.

        4 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
      3. KP‏ @UneDesMilliards 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @TBlackford3 @sapinker

        Meaning: both consider long term effects, as well as effects that have a low probability but high impact.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @UneDesMilliards @sapinker

        No, meaning both are driven by people who least understand what they are talking about who don't care about the real-life harm their "concern" causes.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Federico Reséndiz‏ @resendizf5 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @TBlackford3 @UneDesMilliards @sapinker

        Anti-vaxers know as much about medicine as pro-gmo's know about genomics: tons of bullshit.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Troy Blackford‏ @TBlackford3 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @resendizf5 @UneDesMilliards @sapinker

        Haha exactly.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Federico Reséndiz‏ @resendizf5 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @TBlackford3 @UneDesMilliards @sapinker

        Jesus Christ ! You can't even readpic.twitter.com/CaUXCu52Gd

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      8. End of conversation
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      2. sofocletus‏ @sofocletus 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Arguably even worse, anti GMO hysteria literally takes food out of the mouths of starving people, people have died by the hundreds, today, thanks to it. It´s a blipping crime against Humanity.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Tom Metcalfe‏ @globalbabel 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sofocletus @sapinker

        The career of Mark Lynas has involved getting everything wrong (nuclear power, GMOs), campaigning against them for decades, then flogging stories about how wrong he was, which many had said all along. He'll be first rat off the ship if climate change stops being profitable

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. szspagna‏ @szspagna 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @globalbabel @sofocletus @sapinker

        Gotta make a buck somehow in journalism. Since quality investigative journalism doesn't pay the bills, agitating activism style journalism is the next best thing.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Tom Metcalfe‏ @globalbabel 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @szspagna @sofocletus @sapinker

        "I was wrong about everything for 30 years, but now I'm right and you should listen to me..." Great pitch.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. vegetal  🇺🇸‏ @dale_gribbs 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        What about Monsanto and the US gov. threatening to stop funding to poor farmers in other nations if they refuse GMO? They sue you if you use the seeds to plant again w/o buying them. It's. All. About. Money.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Sisyphus  🌑‏ @jjcrazi 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @dale_gribbs @sapinker

        Source of that info. Third world farmers stole the technology to use. Monsanto helps third world farmers work on projects important to them. Sounds like argumentum ad Monsantium you're making. Monsanto broke my toenail once, bastards!

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. vegetal  🇺🇸‏ @dale_gribbs 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jjcrazi @sapinker

        https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/06/13/monsanto-and-foreign-aid-forcing-el-salvadors-hand/ …

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      5. vegetal  🇺🇸‏ @dale_gribbs 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @dale_gribbs @jjcrazi @sapinker

        It's not ad hominem, btw. People who think Monsanto is some noble corporate food-Jesus are extremely misled and tend to defend GMOs with the most outrage. They also sue organic farmers who's crop gets contaminated by GMO for "stealing tech".

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Sisyphus  🌑‏ @jjcrazi 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @dale_gribbs @sapinker

        You might want to do some fact checking there before jumping to conclusions 😉

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Notorious KGB Aggie‏ @beachvetlbc 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jjcrazi @dale_gribbs @sapinker

        You might want to disclose you are a well known Monsanto troll full of Monsanto lies, looking for people in vegetative comas to buy junk

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. End of conversation
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      2. Margaret Lozano‏ @margaretlozano 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        It’s encouraging- though sadly rare - to see people change their minds in response to evidence. I wish I heard stories like this more often - especially in the @nytimes

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Jodi Koberinski‏ @JodiKoberinski 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @margaretlozano @sapinker @nytimes

        Here’s my story. I bought ingot he better living through chemistry myth and believed my govt provided a check on corporate greed. Then I examined the actual evidence and realized industrial food is killing the planet and making us sick. There’s a story of science opening minds!

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Margaret Lozano‏ @margaretlozano 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @JodiKoberinski @sapinker @nytimes

        But Jodi, GMOs aren’t just about corporations- it’s science that can save and improve lives and isn’t always done for profit at all. Monsanto is not the only group doing GMO research! “But corporations” is a bad argument against the science.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      5. Jodi Koberinski‏ @JodiKoberinski 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @margaretlozano @sapinker @nytimes

        Margaret it’s a 280 character summary ;) I’ve deeply considered the evidence and reject industrial food systems on the basis of evidence. Mind changed.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Margaret Lozano‏ @margaretlozano 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @JodiKoberinski @sapinker @nytimes

        I know you've spent your life thinking about the subject - I don't expect to change your mind. But I worry that those of us who care deeply about the future of this planet often reject tools like GMOs out of hand, because people we dislike use them.

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Jodi Koberinski‏ @JodiKoberinski 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @margaretlozano @sapinker @nytimes

        I do hope people will give deeper consideration. We reject GE as it is an extension of the broken industrial model and based on a kind of genetic determinism that ignores the autonomy of the plant and encourages unsustaining monocultures. We need local and farmer bred seeds.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Margaret Lozano‏ @margaretlozano 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @JodiKoberinski @sapinker @nytimes

        I really appreciate your passion and dedication. But I wonder, what would you tell farmers around the world whose crops are suffering because of climate change? Do they need to wait generations for grafting and seed selection? What would be your approach?

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      9. Jodi Koberinski‏ @JodiKoberinski 14 Dec 2017
        Replying to @margaretlozano @sapinker @nytimes

        I follow approach of those farmers in those regions who’ve innovated through dicerse agroecological systems. CC demands localized breeding. My mentor Dr S Ciccarelli promotes “evolutionary population” breeding in which we maintain as much genetic diversity as possible.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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