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.
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”
The sweet spot is in actually testing for, and enforcing regulations. Fund that part properly, and you’re most of the way there. It should also not need to be said that the testing and enforcement cannot be outsourced to some corporation, and cannot be self reported.
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.
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?
Notice how I included actual information along with my message and attacked the subject matter directly instead trying to dissolve the conversation into nothingness.
The majority of GM crops have been modified to be resistant to selected herbicides, usually a glyphosate or glufosinate based one. Genetically modified crops engineered to resist herbicides are now more available than conventionally bred resistant varieties; in the USA 93% of soybeans and most of the GM maize grown is glyphosate tolerant.
Of course. GMOs and nuclear power
Some of us aren’t against GMOs for being genetically modified, we’re against patents on food.
Some of us also are against massive overuse of glyphosate.
If I could fucking ban pesticides and antibiotics for agricultural use I absolutely would.
You’d probably kill millions of people unless you gradually overhauled the farming industry
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.
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”
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.
The sweet spot is in actually testing for, and enforcing regulations. Fund that part properly, and you’re most of the way there. It should also not need to be said that the testing and enforcement cannot be outsourced to some corporation, and cannot be self reported.
Oh no better keep poisoning everyone then!
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.
All two of you must enjoy hanging out together.
Join us!
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.
“I don’t understand nuclear power, therefore it is bad”
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?
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Starting with the personal attack. Very convincing.
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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GMOs come from the same company that created Agent Orange.
Which ones? There are lots of GMOs out there and they don’t all come from the same company
This guy here asking for facts from the anti-GMO position. Such high hopes for the human race! I remember being young and optimistic.
All of the ones meant to have pesticides poured on them.
You mean none of them?
93% != None
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