dsi1 > wrote in
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> On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 11:25:04 AM UTC-10, Mark
> Thorson wrote:
>> Safe and good for the environment.
>>
>> http://www.slate.com/articles/health.../science/2015/
>> 07/are_gmos
> _safe_yes_the_case_against_them_is_full_of_fraud_l ies_and_error
> s.html
>
> People have always been afraid of science and technology.
> Everything is changing so fast in these times that there are
> hysterical mobs of people that pretty much reject all science
> and technology. Hopefully, the policies of this country will
> not be determined by this rejection of science by the masses -
> but it probably will. That's the breaks.

Science is fine as long as it not used to increase profits to
greedy corporations whose directors' sense of ethics was removed
surgically at birth.

There is nothing wrong with people wanting to know what is in the
food they buy so that they can make an informed decision. They
don't have to take anybody's word for it, but this is what they
want you to do because they say the "science" is "proprietary".

In 1857, in India, the sepoy (infantry troops) were given new
guns and cartridges. The cartridges were closed with a thick
paper coated with beef tallow. The British did not inform the
sepoy that there was beef tallow on the paper and they had to
bite through it before loading the shell.

Attempts by the British to correct matters only inflamed the
discontent. It was too late to offer apologies. Obviously,
keeping secrets like that is bad for your health.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-- Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás

Consider yourself informed.

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor " --
Desmond Tutu