@enoch

From the Smithsonian article:
"already more than 70 percent of the processed foods in the U.S, such as snacks, breakfast cereals and vegetable oils, contain traces of GM crops because common ingredients, including corn, soy and canola oil,usually have been genetically modified."

Also from the article:
"And so far, there’s little to indicate that GM food is harmful to humans."

It says that more than 2/3 of PROCESSED food contains TRACES of GMO. Reality just isn't as scary as melodramatic music videos on YouTube would have you believe.

My biggest concern regarding GMOs is the relatively unknown influence it will have on natural ecosystems and therefore I am definitely concerned about Monsanto's political influence, but to say that it is all poison is just silly.

And yes, a YouTube video that uses dubious claims and a harrowing soundtrack in order to gain Facebook shares sounds pretty slactivist to me.

"This means that almost all of the food you see in a typical grocery store is pure poison, genetically modified."

More important than simply being factually untrue, this statement shows that whoever put this information together doesn't take any time to understand the complexities of the issue.

Don't get me wrong - I'm definitely a local farmer's market kinda guy - but this kind of uneducated slactivism really pisses me off and does more harm than good because the people that actually make a difference can somewhat justifiably write them off.

@criticalthud - Pretty much completely eradicating smallpox and polio, rabies is no longer a death sentence, there has been a 55% reduction in cardiovascular disease fatalities since the fifties, there is a 90% childhood leukemia survival rate, transplants, bacterial infections are generally no longer a big deal...

This is just what comes to me off the top of my head, with research I could go on for hours.

Of course there are flaws and in some cases corruption in western medicine just as you would expect with any such massively complex and lucrative human endeavor, but trying to equate it with the blatant quackery of "alternative medicine" only displays your intentional ignorance of reality and makes you the butt of any joke.

I have no patience for this kind of mindless drivel. Somehow, it has become trendy to ignore the benefits of modern medicine. Honestly, I don't care if you die needlessly of cancer because you waited too long to see some western doctors, but when scum like you try to contribute to the general atmosphere of rampant unfounded mistrust of science based techniques that have an astoundingly successful track record, then you are trying to spread your inane poison and I have to reprimand your idiocy.




http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195150698.001.0001/acprof-9780195150698-chapter-18

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/news/childhood-leukemia-survival-rates-improve-significantly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l1oy8AD5xE

*dead

*quality, like a fine wine.

*nsfw

*quality

Ok ok ok, after reading the FAQ, I think this one'll work:

*quality

Aarrgggg!!!

*beg ?

I bookmarked this for later viewing a couple of days ago, and after finally getting around to it I can say it's a damn shame this didn't get sifted.

*promote

That sort of stall is far too drastic and easy to avoid in normal conditions for it to be the pilot's fault. Something happened - though it would take a remarkable amount of weight to become dislodged for that to happen.

Yea, a global search would be completely unnecessary - just the ability to search within my personal list would do just fine. I know nothing about the specifics of how to implement this, but thanks for the reply and consideration. Hope you can get it to work.

*wtf ?

In the dude's defense, those are bullshit reasons. Officer safety? I never hear officer safety being invoked when there is a real danger like in the case of a robbery or something. Imagine if that happend every time things got dangerous.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that those particular PA residents are allowed to smoke dope in public, what I'm railing against is the ridiculous ambiguity surrounding drug enforcement these days.

One symptom of it is that officers have to come up with disingenuous, bullshit reasons to not enforce a law they don't care to enforce. That's fairly minor and it's just an annoyance because I hate hypocrisy.

Another symptom, however, is that when inclined an officer CAN take significant action, make an arrest and so on - which does have a massive impact on people's lives. Sure, middle class Pennsylvania college kids are shielded from this, but it's definitely not across the board.

So come down on the issue one way or another. My vote is with legalization.