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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Douglas Howard]
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clam_dude said: Greenpeace's anti-gmo stance is evil, antiscientific, and doing bad things for the future of humanity. I have heard a lot of talk recently about the evils of Monsanto. But the more I look into it, the more I find that these rumors are mostly conspiracy theory bs, and that greenpeace are in fact the evil ones. At this point, being anti-gmo is about equivalent to denying climate change. And poor, malnourished people in developing countries are paying the price for the prevalence of pseudoscientific nonsense here in the west. Anyone agree?
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Does this pays a lot more than what monsanto is paying you for trolling?
How were those numbers relevant?
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Douglas Howard]
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BoldAsLove said: Why shouldn't you be able to patent a GMO? If you spend large amounts of money and years developing something why shouldn't you be allowed to capitalize on it? Where is the incentive for that kind of investment if you can't patent?
For one thing, their products cross contaminate into other fields, and eventually their will be no more conventional seeds left which that will make the patent holder the controller of all seeds. And so no one will be able to start an organic farm if they want to.
This is a text book reductio ad absurdum. Allowing patents on GMOs will not lead to a single company owning all the seeds and the end of organics.
Let's stick to reality. Why should all the time and money that these people invested not lead to patents? What is the incentive for them to invest that time and money if they cannot be the owners of their product?
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: BoldAsLove]
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BoldAsLove said: Why shouldn't you be able to patent a GMO? If you spend large amounts of money and years developing something why shouldn't you be allowed to capitalize on it? Where is the incentive for that kind of investment if you can't patent?
For one thing, their products cross contaminate into other fields, and eventually their will be no more conventional seeds left which that will make the patent holder the controller of all seeds. And so no one will be able to start an organic farm if they want to.
This is a text book reductio ad absurdum. Allowing patents on GMOs will not lead to a single company owning all the seeds and the end of organics.
Let's stick to reality. Why should all the time and money that these people invested not lead to patents? What is the incentive for them to invest that time and money if they cannot be the owners of their product?
The Monsanto Monopoly Control of the seed industry is passing into fewer and fewer hands and Monsanto's are the biggest. More than 80% of US corn and more than 90% of soybeans planted each year are attributable to Monsanto and monopoly comes to mind. Is control of the global food system their next target?
Philip Howard, a researcher at Michigan State University, has traced the consolidation of global seed industry. He says that that as four firms control 40% of supply it can no longer be regarded as a competitive market.
It gets worse. The “big four” biotech seed companies—Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta, and Dow AgroSciences—own 80% of the US corn market and 70% of the soybean business.
This should be called a cartel because it certainly isn’t a market.
Of course the companies would dispute this because they say that they do have different products and they do compete with each other. http://www.gmeducation.org/latest-news/p207220-the-monsanto-monopoly.html
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: BoldAsLove]
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In the gmo labeling thread there are a multitude of studies showing harm from gmo's.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Douglas Howard]
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clam_dude said: Greenpeace's anti-gmo stance is evil, antiscientific, and doing bad things for the future of humanity. I have heard a lot of talk recently about the evils of Monsanto. But the more I look into it, the more I find that these rumors are mostly conspiracy theory bs, and that greenpeace are in fact the evil ones. At this point, being anti-gmo is about equivalent to denying climate change. And poor, malnourished people in developing countries are paying the price for the prevalence of pseudoscientific nonsense here in the west. Anyone agree?
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Does this pays a lot more than what monsanto is paying you for trolling?
How were those numbers relevant?
Have you ever seen a post, comment, or reply that absolutely reeked of behind-the-scenes compensation by corporations like Monsanto? In the growing age of internet activism, and the expansion of social media as a tool to spread the word on real issues, paid internet trolling is becoming a new career path.
Now, in case you’re not familiar with what ‘trolling’ really is, I think Wikipedia has a great definition. According to Wikipedia, an internet troll is:
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: BoldAsLove]
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BoldAsLove said: Why shouldn't you be able to patent a GMO? If you spend large amounts of money and years developing something why shouldn't you be allowed to capitalize on it? Where is the incentive for that kind of investment if you can't patent?
For one thing, their products cross contaminate into other fields, and eventually their will be no more conventional seeds left which that will make the patent holder the controller of all seeds. And so no one will be able to start an organic farm if they want to.
This is a text book reductio ad absurdum. Allowing patents on GMOs will not lead to a single company owning all the seeds and the end of organics.
Let's stick to reality. Why should all the time and money that these people invested not lead to patents? What is the incentive for them to invest that time and money if they cannot be the owners of their product?
Lucky that I know our history..
Black Friday, September 24, 1869 was caused by the efforts of two speculators, Jay Gould and James Fisk, to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange.[citation needed] It was one of several scandals that rocked[ambiguous] the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869)
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Douglas Howard]
#22128595 - 08/22/15 08:50 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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And here I've been trolling people for free this whole time
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: paperbackwriter]
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Stonehenge said: In the gmo labeling thread there are a multitude of studies showing harm from gmo's.
So, in other words, you have no response to the dozen or so papers I just linked that quite clearly refute your claims that "long term testing has not been done, only short term" and that "moder gm techniques have only been around for a few years"?
Also, I've read the vast majority of that thread closely and don't remember seeing the studies you are talking about. Could you please link one of them here?
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Douglas Howard]
#22128611 - 08/22/15 08:56 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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BoldAsLove said: Why shouldn't you be able to patent a GMO? If you spend large amounts of money and years developing something why shouldn't you be allowed to capitalize on it? Where is the incentive for that kind of investment if you can't patent?
For one thing, their products cross contaminate into other fields, and eventually their will be no more conventional seeds left which that will make the patent holder the controller of all seeds. And so no one will be able to start an organic farm if they want to.
This is a text book reductio ad absurdum. Allowing patents on GMOs will not lead to a single company owning all the seeds and the end of organics.
Let's stick to reality. Why should all the time and money that these people invested not lead to patents? What is the incentive for them to invest that time and money if they cannot be the owners of their product?
The Monsanto Monopoly Control of the seed industry is passing into fewer and fewer hands and Monsanto's are the biggest. More than 80% of US corn and more than 90% of soybeans planted each year are attributable to Monsanto and monopoly comes to mind. Is control of the global food system their next target?
Philip Howard, a researcher at Michigan State University, has traced the consolidation of global seed industry. He says that that as four firms control 40% of supply it can no longer be regarded as a competitive market.
It gets worse. The “big four” biotech seed companies—Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta, and Dow AgroSciences—own 80% of the US corn market and 70% of the soybean business.
This should be called a cartel because it certainly isn’t a market.
Of course the companies would dispute this because they say that they do have different products and they do compete with each other. http://www.gmeducation.org/latest-news/p207220-the-monsanto-monopoly.html
The fact that most US corn and soybean is GM does not mean that GM will lead to the end of organic farming due to all seeds being owned by a single company. That is a ridiculous claim.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: BoldAsLove]
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Yeah, bold is a likely paid troll.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Stonehenge] 1
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So I provided dozens of peer-reviewed sources that undeniably disprove your last two claims and your response is to call me a troll? Somehow I think that calling people out on their blatant and intentional lies doesn't count as trolling. Making blatant and intentional lies and then refusing to provide evidence - that sounds more like trolling.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: BoldAsLove]
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The other thread is full of studies which as I recall, you merely sneered at. You disproved nothing.
Lets look at the controversy over tobacco which has been recognized as harmful. But for years the tobacco industry cranked out scientific studies showing it was not only safe, but possibly good for you. This shows how money will buy whatever you are looking for and scientists can be bought. We all know monsatan has tons of money they are pouring into the effort. Don't be fooled by the baloney.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Stonehenge]
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One of those studies were true, it prevents ulcerative colitis.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Yukon Cornelius]
#22130147 - 08/23/15 09:37 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's also a mild-MAOI and neural stimulant. I imagine a lot of smokers are self-treating mental health issues with it and that with some research medicine could be developed from it.
It's used heavily in Ayahuasca ceremonies.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: paperbackwriter]
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b caapi is a maoi, there are lots of safer substances than tobacco. Using it rarely for a ceremony is not as bad as smoking it every day like most smokers or chewing it every day.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Stonehenge]
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Stonehenge said: The other thread is full of studies which as I recall, you merely sneered at. You disproved nothing.
Lets look at the controversy over tobacco which has been recognized as harmful. But for years the tobacco industry cranked out scientific studies showing it was not only safe, but possibly good for you. This shows how money will buy whatever you are looking for and scientists can be bought. We all know monsatan has tons of money they are pouring into the effort. Don't be fooled by the baloney.
Most of those studies were not peer-reviewed. And my sneering is what's called an "informed opinion." You never once mentioned why you disagreed with my analysis.
Besides, that wasn't what I was referring to. Just a couple posts ago you claimed that there were no long term studies done and that modern techniques have only existed for a few years. I unambiguously disproved both of these claims and you responded, rather ironically, by calling me a troll.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Stonehenge]
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Stonehenge said: b caapi is a maoi, there are lots of safer substances than tobacco. Using it rarely for a ceremony is not as bad as smoking it every day like most smokers or chewing it every day.
I agree. And I know b. caapi is an MAOI. Tobacco is too though much milder.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: Douglas Howard]
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Douglas Howard said: The Monsanto Monopoly Control of the seed industry is passing into fewer and fewer hands and Monsanto's are the biggest. More than 80% of US corn and more than 90% of soybeans planted each year are attributable to Monsanto and monopoly comes to mind. Is control of the global food system their next target?
Philip Howard, a researcher at Michigan State University, has traced the consolidation of global seed industry. He says that that as four firms control 40% of supply it can no longer be regarded as a competitive market.
It gets worse. The “big four” biotech seed companies—Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta, and Dow AgroSciences—own 80% of the US corn market and 70% of the soybean business.
This should be called a cartel because it certainly isn’t a market.
Of course the companies would dispute this because they say that they do have different products and they do compete with each other. http://www.gmeducation.org/latest-news/p207220-the-monsanto-monopoly.html
The ironic thing is that the anti gmo croud has made it extremely difficult and expensive to patent seeds. This has resulted in only a few large companies having the resources to do so. It's sort of a self fulfilling prophecy.
The other thing is that, as I said earlier, the anti gmo croud has been protesting ngos, which have tried to create public domain gmo seeds. Likewise, non gmo seeds have been patented since the 1930's. So clearly, opposition to seed patenting is a separate issue from opposition to gmos. But they've been conflated.
Not to mention, the patents are only good for 20 years - enough time for the company to make a short term profit, but not enough for the company to control agriculture until the end of time. As it has been about 20 years since gmos became widely used, many gmo seeds are no longer under patent control.
I'll add that I've heard many horror stories about the evils of Monsanto. But most of these stories have turned out not to be true. For example, I had been under the impression that Monsanto has sued poor independent farmers who had gmo seeds blow on to their fields, and grew them unwittingly. When I looked this up for myself, it turned out not to be true.
So I'm skeptical when I hear about how evil Monsanto is. Perhaps there are real concerns, as there are with any large corporation and consolidation of power. But so much of what I've heard in particular from the anti gmo folks is basically in the realm of conspiracy theories.
It's an easy pill to swallow - the large corporation that doesn't care about anything but it's bottom line - at the expense of public health. But I care about what's true, and when I look up these specific horror stories, they turn out to be false. If anything, this is just muddying the waters of what could be a productive debate.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: clam_dude]
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Also, I checked out the website you posted a link to. It clearly has an anti-gmo bias. I clicked on the first section, "do we need gm to feed the world?" And it's full of garbage. I don't trust anything they say for a second and don't think it's worth reading what they have to say about Monsatan. I'm perfectly comfortable criticizing large corporations - I'm a Chomsky fan, for example, and am generally suspicious of large corporations. But like I said, I care about what's true.
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Re: Greenpeace - an evil and antiscientific organization [Re: clam_dude]
#22130762 - 08/23/15 12:36 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Oh really?
http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-sued-farmers-16-years-gmos-never-lost/
Monsanto Sues Farmers for 16 Straight Years over GMOs, NEVER Loses
Christina Sarich
by Christina Sarich Posted on August 29, 2014
monsantoWhere is the justice? Since 1997, Monsanto has filed 145 lawsuits, or on average about 9 lawsuits every year for 16 straight years, against farmers who have “improperly reused their patented seeds.”
The biotech giant hasn’t lost a single case, either. Not one. This includes when farmers tried to sue Monsanto over cross-pollination of their organic crops with GMO seed. For example, a federal court dismissed one of those cases, saying that it couldn’t protect Monsanto against unfair lawsuits should they side in the farmers’ favor. What about unfair business practices? What about 92% of people saying they want their food labeled if it contains genetically modified ingredients? What about the right of farmers to grow food from seed that hasn’t been altered to turn it into a DNA freak show?
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