Re: [DIYbio] free food

The use of Terminator is a very widespread myth that's popularly held
and believed despite all evidence to the contrary. That nutter Vandana
Shiva tells people that GE are "seeds of death" and won't germinate, a
spurious lie that is trivially disproven by just planting one, and yet
nobody in the crowds at her well-paid speaking engagements question it.

There's a financial incentive to lie, because you become famous as an
anti-whatever firebrand, and there's a social incentive to accept
bullshit because you become part of a clique. So myths about vaccines,
GE, antibiotics, etcetera proliferate like thought-viruses.

On 15/01/15 00:19, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Cathal Garvey
> <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
>> Dude. Do some research. Monsanto never shipped Terminator after the public
>> backlash
>
> Dang, I was swindled by popular media. Actually I assumed the Haitians
> I saw protesting were doing so because of fears terminator genes,
> because they used some slogan about getting caught in a cycle of being
> forced to buy seed each year.
>
> 'Monsanto | Myth: Monsanto Sells Terminator Seeds'
> http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/terminator-seeds.aspx
>
> I guess I don't understand why more countries aren't pirating, I guess
> I don't know enough about international politics to know why Haiti
> would care to mind American IP. Maybe the protesters didn't really
> even know what they were protesting.
>

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