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Originally Posted by Soundy
^I think that's the biggest reason for the whole current attitude: Monsanto started pissing off the world with their patent suits, your average layperson only heard "ooo, Monsanto is so bad with their GMOs!", and made the "GMO=evil" connection, which of course, is happily supported by any number of keyboard and YouTube warriors with an axe to grind, a tinfoil hat to polish, or just a desire to troll as many people as possible.
BTW, here are some of Monsanto's legal shenanigans detailed: Search Techdirt: monsanto |
That is true, but on top of that there is a lot of anti-GMO propaganda. I can remember people being blindly against it even before the anti-Monsanto stuff started.
It's like the pro-organic movement. There is no real reason for it - it is just branding. There may be some good things about it (farmers able to sell produce for a higher cost) and some bad, but overall people champion it for the wrong reasons (thinking it is "better for you" or somehow "tastes better")
Before that it was the anti-salt movement
Before that, anti cholesterol
Before that, the target was saturated fat
And so it goes... People ignore facts, and just join the rallying cry for the latest trend to be angry about something.