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cropsey, il 61731 | At some point you just have to look around and go with the facts. However, these days more decisions are made base on feelings than reality. In this case fear can be much much more effective at influencing decision making. With the vast consumption of gmo foods with generally no issues, a case can be made for correlating gmo food with longer life (I'm not suggesting cause). Consider that hsus can make a video clip of a pig with sad background music, suggest the pig is sad and poorly treated and win the argument - not one fact expressed only emotion.
Have you guys spent any time working in a corporation? (I have) They are large, clumsy and have trouble keeping secrets. They can amass the capital and talent to develop something like gmo crops - probably at far higher cost than a smaller organization, but hard working entrepreneurial companies are getting scarce and end up beat up by congress when they are successful. Can large companies make big mistakes - you betcha. Is the government the only watch dog? Nope and I would suggest probably not a watch dog anyway. The check in the system is legal system that just can't get enough money. If monsanto truly had poisoned the world with it's products it would have been sued out of existence. Remember starlink? Released before approval and magically one kid in Fla had an allergic reaction (only healed by cash btw). Starlink isn't anything different than other Bt traits except the approval/release issue.
There is far more room for 'hanky panky' in our wonderful government especially as it grows in scope and size, yet it's always some evil corporation. Of course there were the enron's of the world, but they played a specific game where they could change the rules vs. monsanto making products that affect everyone in the world - lots of chances to get in trouble. Not saying everything is hunky dory but there is far more death and sickness caused by political power that we choose to ignore
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