On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:31:55 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 8/20/2013 9:31 AM, notbob wrote:
>> On 2013-08-20, jmcquown > wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if she "won", but she got a point across. Sharp young
>>> woman. The guy seemed to try to brow-beat her a bit. She didn't lose
>>> her cool.
>>
>> Agree. Plus, this Kevin twit uses specious arguments to no avail. So
>> what if 50K ppl die. Too damn many ppl on this tiny orb, anyway. We
>> need to lose about 5 billion. Everybody else tests so Monsanto
>> doesn't need to? Who is this asshat? I've had my run, so no sweat
>> off my brow, but it's a losing game and there's a good chance GMOs
>> will be a key player in man's demise. Bottom line, it's not nice to
>> fool mother nature and to add insult to injury, Monsanto is doing it
>> out of pure greed. They don't give a rat's ass how many ppl die as
>> long as they make a profit.
>>
>> nb
>>
>What got me the GMO rice with Vitamin A. She researched it, said
>the hypothetical kid would have to eat 37 bowls of rice a DAY. He was
>like, so what? Uh, dude, if the kid had could get his hands on
>30-something bowls of rice a day he would most likely have access to
>other food, too. It was a ridiculous point for him to try to press.

Yeah, that was an particularly stupid argument.