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Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by pavement on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:44AM (#14660840)
It never ceases to amaze me, how much controversy the name Monsanto stirs up.

The waters around this company are so murky, that it's less a question of whether the company operates an unregulated extrajudicial campaign against public awareness of their wares and activity, but rather, what's their spend on it, and how deep do they go?

Food security is frighteningly politicized, to the point of bald militarization (see: Canada's maple syrup). Almost nothing would surprise me.

Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by matt4077 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:05AM (#14661762)
Well that would be my favourite conspiracy ever, considering the people running it must be the most incompetent evil scheming overlords ever.

If they're running an "unregulated extrajudicial campaign against public awareness", it is a spectacular failure, considering Monsanto is among the most-hated companies on the planet. Can we somehow get them hired by Syria's government?

Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:46AM (#14661939)
Maybe they simply don't give a damn, because they realize general population is not their target market, and so it doesn't matter what regular people think of them?
Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by thrillgore on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:39AM (#14663173)
And yet as an agricultural company, almost every person on earth is touched by their products or intellectual property. Regular people don't care but 7 billion potential and unaware users of their products might...
Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:41AM (#14663190)
The question is - does "7 billion potential and unaware users" becoming aware affects their bottom-line? If it doesn't, then they probably won't care.

I'm not saying it is good, but that's how things work. That's e.g. why boycotts generally don't work.

Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by notatoad on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:33PM (#14665149)
Wait, what about canada's maple syrup is militarized?
Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by tripzilch on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:08PM (#14703594)
Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by reacweb on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:19AM (#14661815)
Considering the huge number of TV reportage about how mosanto is evil and the tiny number of trials for defamation, I consider that anything sold by mosanto shall be avoided.