the hippes won. so tight
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Not really. I think this will end with pendulum still firmly on industrial side. Hippie doesn't scale.
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No I mean ultimately, things like GMOs are the future. Only so far you can accommodate luddism.
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Insisting on ingredients you can recognize. You solve that through better chemistry education long term.
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ingredients you can recognize is a nice heuristic for ancestrally-appropriate food. if GMOs create beauty then awesome-
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More seriously, there is actual risk, to be investigated, and just risk to essentialized human identity
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If a GMO can kill all, I want to find out early. If a GMO can feed 2x more starving people, hippies to hell.
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Tough. Humans advance by taking risks at individual/collective levels. Try your best not to scale too early


