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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)In general, when one launches an attack on science, whether it comes from the left or the right, the argument being made comes from a closed circle of people who hate science and scientists because they know nothing at all about science and scientists, except that they hate both.
Right now, several million people, many of them children are blind because people who hate science and scientists prevented the use of golden rice, engineered to include vitamin A as a nutritional feature.
There are millions of people alive today who would have otherwise died from breast cancer, or free of pain that might have crippled them with intractable arthritis, because of drugs made by scientists who genetically engineered organisms to produce those drugs.
Frankly there is nothing more obnoxious, more deadly, more ethically disgusting than letting children go blind, and letting people die from cancer, or suffer with crippling arthritis because one is too damn lazy to open a science book.
And right now, and right now, this minute, we have seven billion people to feed on this planet, the same planet that is being destroyed because people burn coal, oil and gas to run computers to post stupid stuff on the internet - this while dreaming of a nonsensical "green" fantasy land that doesn't exist - we have seven billion people who need to eat.
Every damn major agricultural product on this planet is genetically engineered, albeit through breeding historically. As far as genetic modification goes, it's called "evolution." Gene exchange between organisms has long been a regular feature of all living things on this planet, for billions of years. Leftist creationism is not qualitatively different than right wing creationism. Both represent the unyielding destruction of our country's, and the world's future.
The ignorance here is appalling.
Have a nice weekend.