• FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Some of us aren’t against GMOs for being genetically modified, we’re against patents on food.

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            4 months ago

            If I could fucking ban pesticides and antibiotics for agricultural use I absolutely would.

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              4 months ago

              You’d probably kill millions of people unless you gradually overhauled the farming industry

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                4 months ago

                Well, yes, but also if I actually had the power to make that change I would do it gradually through a market system for exactly that reason. One can dream, though.

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                  4 months ago

                  One small change, Market systems are prone to market failures. They’re also rather inefficient, because there needs to be inefficiencies or else there’s no profit.

                  No, the best path to reducing pesticides and the over reliance on fertilizer is regulatory, with people on the ground checking compliance. Our food supply is too important to be left to the inefficiencies and corruption of “market solutions”

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                    4 months ago

                    You need to have a role for the market. Central planning is a demonstrably bad idea.

                    But a heavily regulated market is the sweet spot.

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          4 months ago

          I’m also against patents on food but this is a bad argument. GMOs are artificial and can reasonably be patented under the same rules as any other technology.

          Patents in general must be abolished.

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          4 months ago

          Also they had sex symbol Jane Fonda.

          What is with the anti-reason luddites and being so good at getting porn stars on their side? Jenny McCarthy is another as well as PETAs small cohort of nude exhibitionist girls.

          Maybe the next pandemic WHO should hire a few to do a “vaccines are sexy” promotion. Is that it? The only way to convince people to not die a preventable death is have someone with big tits give them the answer?

          • Sightline@lemmy.ml
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            4 months ago

            Notice how I included actual information along with my message and attacked the subject matter directly instead trying to dissolve the conversation into nothingness.

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              4 months ago

              Notice

              I noticed your comment got removed by the mods because you engaged in a personal attack.

              Shrug. I thought we attacked ideas here not people. You know, unlike the luddite crowd does.

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                4 months ago

                Haha your comment was removed

                Haha your comment was removed

                This means I don’t have to defend my made up implications now, haha!

                That’s your 4th comment that doesn’t address what I said.

                Curious.

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          4 months ago

          Which ones? There are lots of GMOs out there and they don’t all come from the same company

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          4 months ago

          Hey, buddy what happened to your original comment? Since you clearly respect the truth so very much why don’t you tell the world what you said to me before? I thought it was quite insightful and a good representation of the anti-GMO position. In fact your comments about my intelligence were perhaps the single best, nay the best, arguments against GMOs I have ever seen.

          • Sightline@lemmy.ml
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            4 months ago

            Since you clearly respect the truth so very much why don’t you tell the world what you said to me before?

            …so you want me to make the same comment again so it’s immediately removed?