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In reply to the discussion: Breaking News: Monsanto to Be Put to Trial in Hague for Crimes Against Humanity [View all]NNadir
(33,512 posts)...for example, what is good for "just you" is not an issue.
You want to eat food, and you can, being comfortably bourgeois and having the privilege of living in a rich country.
There are billions of people who are not living a luxurious life of "feeling less tired" and "thinking more clearly," but if I may note, you are clearly not thinking more about those people with your new "clear thinking."
The tenor here is that Monsanto scientists wake up in the morning thinking to themselves "how can I kill more people to make money." This is a huge injustice, rather smug if I may say so.
The people engaging in the chorus of this tenor are nevertheless spectacularly uninterested in the people who many agribusiness scientists - and I personally have met quite a few of them - are actually very involved in serving, for instance, the nearly one billion people identified by the UN Millenium Goals Report still living on less than $1.25/day.
You, of course, can afford to throw away foods infested with insects, or deal with low yields and thus higher priced foods, but trust me, those living on $1.25/day are not really quite so privileged.
Now that, by your own description, you are "thinking more clearly," maybe you can set aside some of that libertarian indifference to everyone else on the planet and figure out, with this new "clear" thinking, how you will contribute, as many Monsanto (and other agroscientists) being subjected to mock trials by Kangaroo ersatz courts are doing, to addressing the needs of that particular one billion human beings who can't be like American "foodies," driving to farm stands in their SUV's to buy "locally grown" foods.
How clearly does one think, and how tired does one get in a famine? Can you provide me with some "clear thinking" on this score?
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.