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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On September 18 2015 00:37 Numy wrote: Isn't this akin to the anti-MSG stuff? Or does the anti-GMO have more merit than that. I consider the anti-MSG movement to be slightly more valid because some people are actually sensitive to glutamates, even if the symptoms are mild, even if it has absolutely no effect on the VAST majority of people. The anti-GMO movement is motivated by environmental skepticism of scientific, government, and corporate regulatory agencies and monitoring, the movement to "go natural", and overall anti-corporatism/anti-globalization. If you follow the vast literature published by regulatory agencies and the scientific community GMOs have no demonstrated risk to human health, and indeed have the potential to drastically improve food security and nutrition in the "third" world, as well as in the developed world. Look, for instance, at golden rice and the "controversy" over it. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On September 18 2015 00:19 phyvo wrote: Independent is the way to go, means I can vote in whatever primary I want based on how I feel about the candidates. The problem with requiring labeling on GMOs is that it people will assume that because it's labeled by law that means it's bad. It's one thing to advertise your product as non-GMO to people who don't know what's good for them and stick them with a higher price. It's another thing to punish the companies using GMOs by encouraging alarmist attitudes. I would only support labeling GMO foods if the general public was actually educated about GMOs and realized that we have been eating food with mutations created by blasting plants with random radiation for decades. LT why you gotta be more ninja than me? Ugh, except people are gonna assume that blasting with radiation is bad. It isn't. It's just a way of generating random mutations, many of which will have no effect, a few while will be deleterious, and a few which will be useful (and those are the ones that we look for). There's a lot of methods to induce random (and not so random) mutations-- a cool one is CRISPR-Cas, but I'll stop there As a biology major I could go in depth about how all this crap works and I think the reasonable takeaway would be that it's fine. But I'd have to explain about how genetic engineering, fitness, etc. all work and that's way too much for the average layman. It's like when Fiorina brought up how horrific abortion and stuff is. Physicians and nurses use some pretty brutal sounding language when referring to practice which would terrify, disgust and elicit all sort of negative emotion for average Joe. Thing is, average Joe doesn't understand that there's millions of hours of research and application that led to these procedures, inelegant as they sound. | ||
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
sad but true | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On September 17 2015 23:19 Ketara wrote: Source for Clinton comment is 10 seconds of Google searching. ??? | ||
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phyvo
United States5635 Posts
On September 18 2015 00:58 Dandel Ion wrote: tbh scepticism towards regulatory agencies and monitoring is very understandable imo sad but true For instance, the government agents who are supposed to make sure pipelines are safe can make way more money working for the actual oil company. So it's no surprise when you hear that they're understaffed for the number of oil pipelines they have to inspect. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
Personally, I think it's a failure of the American education system for not knowing all the random facts about Google-fu | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 18 2015 01:10 jcarlsoniv wrote: Personally, I think it's a failure of the American education system for not knowing all the random facts about Google-fu You know in other countries they know how to google things much better than America, I bet Americans couldn't out-google someone from Uzbekistan (where I've been and know much about). | ||
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On September 18 2015 01:10 jcarlsoniv wrote: Personally, I think it's a failure of the American education system for not knowing all the random facts about Google-fu I still don't see a sauce for it is the problem. <__< All I see is Hillary opposing it, nothing that says Bill regrets it. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On September 18 2015 01:19 ComaDose wrote: I cant believe some people dont know what the Uzbekistan alphabet is rofl, some people couldn't note down the 10 biggest uzbek cities what an education system Should at least remember Jizzakh tho 10/10 city, i recommend | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On September 18 2015 01:18 Lord Tolkien wrote: I still don't see a sauce for it is the problem. <__< All I see is Hillary opposing it, nothing that says Bill regrets it. I was channeling my inner euro and agreeing with you through satire. | ||
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
BoonMear PMed me this and didn't want to post it in LLL because he didn't have time to make a wall of text (and he doesn't want to make non-wall-of-text posts so...). http://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9188517/political-bias | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
On September 18 2015 01:31 Lord Tolkien wrote: (and he doesn't want to make non-wall-of-text posts so...) Sounds like the kind of man I could have strived to be, had I not succumbed to the sirens of shitposting. (Had it been "non-meaningful-wall-of-text posts" I'd have caved in from the start though.) | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
obvious nonsense is obvious | ||
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