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Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy

Posted by kdawson on from the eats-like-a-bird dept.

blackbeak writes "The BBC today characterized those who avoid GM foods as overly fussy, the very same day that the Wall Street Journal announced that picky eating may be recognized in the 2013 DSM as a psychiatric disorder. The DSM item refers to something completely different, though I'm sure many will confuse the two. Of course, this was not done without subterfuge; the BBC's author, Professor Jonathan Jones, in no way indicates his close ties to Monsanto. Point by point Jones regurgitates the same pro-GM arguments debunked numerous times all over the net for years, while serving up some stale half facts too."

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  1. GM by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I Want to avoid Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota foods too

    1. Re:GM by lxs · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well they did bring oil to the masses...

    2. Re:GM by Spazztastic · · Score: 5, Funny

      Humans can synthesize vitamin D when they are exposed to sunlight.

      I don't leave the house, you insensitive clod!

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    3. Re:GM by evrybodygonsurfin · · Score: 2, Funny

      What exactly is the difference between one end of a football and the other?

  2. pot calling kettle black? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kdawson complaining about crappy news reporting...heh.

  3. Re:And I say by Halo1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Monsanto can suck my dick.

    Given Monsanto's business model, that might render you infertile more quickly than you can say "Monsanto's SuperSperm Discount Pack".

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  4. Another Win for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It is well known that Monsanto is in bed with Microsoft, using a closed source, proprietary operating system (Windows) to do all their genetic modifications in an inherently inferior and insecure environment. Monsanto scientists sit in cramped cubicles, using Visual Studio to do all of their genetic modification, but even with Resharper installed it cannot come close to the power of even EMACS or VI on Linux.

    So, where Monsanto to use a free, open source operating system (any flavour of Linux would do) to do their genetic modifications, they would gain access to powerful tools like EMACS and VI, and would immediately notice a surge in productivity. Plus, they could upload everything to GitHub where the public could inspect their code for bugs.

  5. Re:Please give me GM everything. by value_added · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't need "lactose free milk"

    Indeed. I suspect my milk is getting fussy being surrounded Monsanto's genetically-engineered, artificially-flavoured soy products. Or as Lewis Black put it,

    There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually... start to gag. Know how come I know there's no such thing as soy milk? Because there's no soy titty, is there?

    Milk. Straight from the tit.

  6. Re:ah, Monsanto by Spazztastic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, and they are the same guy patenting pigs(!) which have eaten their crops.

    I'm going to patent any woman I sleep with.

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  7. Re:Straw man by todrules · · Score: 2, Funny

    To suggest otherwise is just a straw man argument.

    But it's a GM-straw man, so it's OK.

  8. Re:'Viewpoint' by SkunkPussy · · Score: 2, Funny

    l2polite cuntfag

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  9. Re:ah, Monsanto by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, and they are the same guy patenting pigs(!) which have eaten their crops.

    I'm going to patent any woman I sleep with.

    That's called a marriage, and in the U.S. it seems to only lasts about 20 years, just like any other patent.