re: #10 Jayleia

I get told I make these “mistakes” quite often but, as usual, I never get told what the mistake might be. Perhaps you will enlighten me. The initial post was clearly a knee jerk reaction. I am trying to help with that. Consider the Nestle and Monsanto comment by Pi-onist. Monsanto had fuck all to do with this. But let us consider what the evil Monsanto does that so offends. They offer for sale seeds for various crops that are bred or genetically modified for specific things like yield, or drought resistance or pest resistance. And Farmers get to buy those seeds or not as they please. NO ONE MAKES THEM. They do so because they get better yields per acre, use less of those expensive pesticides that we could all do without and cope with drought. They buy Monsanto’s products because those products help them to continue in a very tough business. Spouting cant and drivel about the evil world conquering Monsanto does not convince any of these farmers that people who spout drivel on the left are
in any way informed or even sane. It doesn’t help at all to do that. It’s just a different epistemological bubble. And it really gets very tiresome.