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| Over the last 10 years, Monsanto's successful GMO products have grown the company 10x. Apple's iGizmos have grown the company 60x. Monsanto makes food for the poor. Apple makes entertainment toys for the yuppies. Both work together to make it easier for people to become distracted, unempowered, sedentary diabetics. Fortunately, it is still possible to make other choices, and many people do. | Over the last 10 years, Monsanto's successful GMO products have grown the company 10x. Apple's iGizmos have grown the company 60x. Monsanto makes food for the poor. Apple makes entertainment toys for the yuppies. Both make it easier for people to become distracted, unempowered, sedentary diabetics. Fortunately, it is still possible to make other choices, and many people do. |
Apple and Monsanto
I have had the "interesting" experience of being hectored about the evils of Monsanto by people using Apple computers. I hang out with a lot more programmers than farmers, and Apple makes trendy tools used by the former, while lowly and un-trendy farmers merely feed us from their boring little towns in fly-over country. Nobody is directly forced to use the production tools provided by either company, though both attack competitors vigorously in court, tilting the playing field in their favor, rather than competing purely on merit.
I use open source Linux, and eat vegetarian, so I am one of the people both companies tilt against. Neither is attacking me personally, though both affect me mostly negatively. I have bought Apple products for others, as well as corn fed meat for my omnivorous friends, so I am not hostile to these companies, except when they try to deny me the diversity I need. Apple has been much more hostile to my interests than Monsanto, so far.
Over the last 10 years, Monsanto's successful GMO products have grown the company 10x. Apple's iGizmos have grown the company 60x. Monsanto makes food for the poor. Apple makes entertainment toys for the yuppies. Both make it easier for people to become distracted, unempowered, sedentary diabetics. Fortunately, it is still possible to make other choices, and many people do.
My world needs more cropland reverting to nature, and healthy alternatives to fishing a collapsing ocean ecosystem. GMO is villified by the control freaks of the left and the right (who conveniently ignore the chemical/radiation mutagens that brought us their "natural" non-GMO varieties), but this is the only way we will develop crops that will produce more foods with more nutrients on less land.
Ah well. Everyone needs a hobby. For me, it is developing tools for healing the planet. For others, it is ineffective totalitarian slander. As long as the slanderers stuff their faces with carbs and their brains with crippling nonsense, they will be annoying but mostly harmless.