Thank you for sharing this. The demonization of GMOs is like the agricultural equivalent of anti-vaxxers.
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Meaning: both consider long term effects, as well as effects that have a low probability but high impact.
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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.
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Anti-vaxers know as much about medicine as pro-gmo's know about genomics: tons of bullshit.
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Haha exactly.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"I was wrong about everything for 30 years, but now I'm right and you should listen to me..." Great pitch.
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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.
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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!
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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".
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You might want to do some fact checking there before jumping to conclusions

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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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