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What if all the Monsanto technology was distributed free, to every scientist in every country?
Monsanto is currently evil, no doubt. But it’s currently a capitalist adventure. The technology can be used for good.
Biotech is a mixed bag of nuts. Monsanto’s technology was developed with US taxpayer dollars during the Cold War. The technology belongs to the people. It is OURS, and if we want to give it to other countries, we should be able to. And we could give that biotech info to every curious scientist across the globe!
Do you know how US Big AG kills millions of people every year? Well, just making the technology free could solve that. Yes, the GM crops themselves have some health risks, but how safer would they be if every government on Earth had access to the technology and could properly test them?
Don’t buy into the “technology is bad” meme. Think bigger. Dream about a world where science is open to everyone and all knowledge about technology is free for the taking. Much of the US-funded scientific literature was opened to the public a few years ago. Scholar has most of it indexed now. Biotech, when it comes to crops, is a big dark spot – even though it was engineered in the US with Gov funds. The present situation, where Monsanto controls the gov, is backwards. WE funded the Monsanto tech, and WE should take it back. And then WE should distribute the tech info freely to every nation on earth.
Scientists are part of the 99%. They are terribly underpaid. Yet they hold the key.
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I am trying to get up to speed on Monsanto, but my guess is that their patent attorneys make a lot of money.
Are you insane? You actually want to promote gene modification technology and make it free to everyone? Do you want the create a wasteland of fallow fields where no crops can grow because all the nutrients have been sucked out of the soil? Do you want no more natural foods because they can’t compete with the genetically modified varieties? Do you want entire populations of people with incurable cancers because enzyme levels in the stomach lining multiply uncontrollably? Do you want new species of super bugs that are immune to all known antibiotics? Do you want to kill off the human race?
There is a reason that Europe bans genetically modified foods: 80 – 90% of Europeans think that genetically modified foods are harmful. And you want to to spread them throughout the globe by offering this unwholesome technology for free? Really?
Thanks, hellcat; didn’t want to ask that.