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- Dec 11, 2013
I'm not going to argue that Monsanto, love the word filter by the way, has some shady business practices but they themselves are not evil. They're a big corporation. They're all about the bottom line so they're going to protect their intellectual property.Private Villa of Corrupted Crops is pretty shit tbh. But some of these nuts (like Greenpeace) even oppose absolutely positive GMOs for the flimsiest of pretexts and dumbass slogans like "frankenfood." One example would be golden rice. It's just rice that also produces Vitamin A. Not having Vitamin A kills 1-2 million people EVERY YEAR. You could send in doctors and nutritional supplements and shit like that, but in many of these places, they already grow rice.
Greenpeace has some pretty theoretical PETA-tier bullshit about how corporations could manipulate this for their own benefit, some of which is probably true, but we're talking about a fucking Holocaust every six years that a single GMO could stop in its tracks. Never mind the millions of other people who end up flat out blind or with permanent vision impairments. Not to be too harshly utilitarian, but permanently blind or nearly blind people cost more than dead people.
Same with Greenpeace. I'm all for an environmentally aware group that is trying to protect the planet but when it actually comes at a cost to real human lives, they've totally lost any support I might have given them.
But this is why you can't argue with fanatics. Any fanatic regardless of which side of the political or social divide you're on. I know vegans and I mean strict vegans. They're normal people except they don't partake of the flesh or anything from an animal but they don't get in my face about it. It's not a status thing with them. It's simply who they are. Except the kind we normally run into are judgmental cunts like this one:
She's talking about her pet chicken who's she's "adopted".
Personally next time faced with a judgemental vegan, I think we should act more like this:
Problem is, I don't think any of them will get the irony.
