Re:How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm
by mseebach on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:08AM
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There are 304,255 signatories to this petition. While they may agree with experts, it seems unlikely that more than a small minority have actually researched the issue, much less qualifying as experts.
> Farmers are experts in breeding cattle. Point. Not more, not less. Basic concepts in biology are often terribly misunderstood or just ignored stubbornly by them for decades, and there is a big inertia in small villages to accept changes. For some reason, all people are instead ready to follow the local hero, with his myth based ideas, and often lose money by this.
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/38257
> Farmers are experts in breeding cattle. Point. Not more, not less. Basic concepts in biology are often terribly misunderstood or just ignored stubbornly by them for decades, and there is a big inertia in small villages to accept changes. For some reason, all people are instead ready to follow the local hero, with his myth based ideas, and often lose money by this.
This is a wildly arrogant big city point of view.