Comment on MONOCULTURE

Rothe@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think by “remarkably safe” he meant “appealingly harmful”. It’s understandable, I mix those up all the time.

  … Then again maybe the purpose of making the meme like that is provoke exactly this kind of comment.

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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Lmao. I think Monsanto is pouring money into Lemmy because holy shit there are some brown noses bootlickers defending daddy Monsanto.

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  • bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Monsanto sold to Bayer to avoid public scrutiny, don’t forget your healthy does of Bayer disparagement.

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    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Didn’t bayer recently sell to another company? I seem to recall a neighbor who is retired from them telling me he can’t shop at the bayer store anymore.

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      • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Didn’t bayer recently sell to another company?

        Heh. So Monsanto’s now like a game of hot potato [or latchkomb[1]]?

        Positive sign.

        [1: “There is a popular Moclan game called latchkum that we play from time-to-time. I do not believe you would enjoy it; it is not for humans.”]

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• Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Relevant Veritasium: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ

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• Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “remarkably safe” as in one can make a remark about it being safe.

  Though…

  Only if one looks only at one tiny teensy narrow aspect of biology (like human’s dont have the shikimate pathway), or if one does not lie or speak from ignorance.

  But even that GRAS by virtue of humans not having a shikimate pathway, is utter bunk in the whole of our health. Half our gut buddies that we depend on for a functional immune system and digestive system, do have a shikimate pathway. Not to mention the catalytic carcinogenic effects of glyphosate, or, even if you get it dry enough to have its breakdown be expedited enough to a short enough half-life within a human lifetime, to get past those catalyitic carcinogenic effects, the breakdown products are not good for us either… nor for the biosphere. Cumulative harms.

  But hey, don’t worry, everybody.

  The corporation has genetically modified species that can survive Glyphosatiation. So all you need to do to survive is to have those patented genes, so the corporation owns you, then you’ll be fiiiiiiine. It’s all part of the plan. Codex Alimentarius. The plan to own all life on earth. Yaaaaaaay, capitalism! Yaaaaaaay, monopoly! Yaaaaaaay, daddy corporation is here to save us, by owning us. Don’t you all feel relieved that it’s just a protection racket threatening your life, and all human life, and all life, just an anthrocide threat and an ecocide threat, to coerce us into being owned, rather than the certain end of [nearly] all life on earth? Don’t you feel relieved? Phew. I know I do. I thought for sure we were in a lot of trouble there. }( ¬)_( ¬){ We’ll be owned and be happy.

  Gee that’s a nice life and biosphere you have there. It’d be a shame if anything bad were to happen to it. Pay no attention to the solution space upstream. I have a jab I’d like to sell to you.

  … Brutal jokes for brutal times.

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