• FuzzyRedPanda
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        273 months ago

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

          • Liz
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            103 months ago

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

            • @Cryophilia
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              33 months ago

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

              • Liz
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                03 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.

                • @chaogomu
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                  23 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”

                  • @Cryophilia
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                    13 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.

        • Something Burger 🍔
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          53 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.

            • @afraid_of_zombies
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              I’m busy I have to fly to the UK and throw paint on Stonehedge so I can raise awareness about a different pet issue next week.

      • @Luminocta
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        63 months ago

        “I don’t understand nuclear power, therefore it is bad”

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          53 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
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        3 months ago

        GMOs come from the same company that created Agent Orange.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      Biden supporters aren’t really left wing though. The left is barely a thing in the US.

      • Something Burger 🍔
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        83 months ago

        Does Biden even have supporters? Or just Trump haters? Who is actually enthusiastic for a second Biden term, rather than a not-Trump term?

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          Im kinda excited about his cabinet continuing but yeah. Biden could be replaced by one of those novelty singing fish and id be somewhat neutral to it still.