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Re:Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think ... by shhehebehdh on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:00PM (#18924448)
> but now we know that RoundUp in large quantities clearly causes cancer.

I don’t think we do know that. Unless Wikipedia editors and European regulatory agencies are Monsanto shills. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate

Re:Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think ... by socrates1998 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:19PM (#18925393)
>Unless Wikipedia editors and European regulatory agencies are Monsanto shills.

If you saw how far Monsanto's reach was, you would know that Wikipedia is child's play. And they infiltrated other governments, so the European regulatory agencies are clearly within their wheelhouse.

Here is one example of when they corrupted a Harvard professor.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/01/harvard-profess...

Re:Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think ... by poilcn on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:51PM (#18925022)
Ironically one section of the article refers to an article by Guardian which states that one of these regulatory agencies copy-paste Monsanto's texts. It reminded me of one of Richard Feynman's stories where he was part of the commission for reviewing new school books which were according to him complete garbage, but other members of the commission approved them. Turned out their reviews were in fact written by the publishing houses and they just published what they were given. It wasn't a case of corruption, rather, people were lazy to even open the books.
Re:Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think ... by socrates1998 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:22PM (#18925425)
Yup, basically, Monsanto does the study, writes the report, then give the Professor thousands of dollars to put his name on it.

He doesn't have to lift a finger and gets credit for a study plus thousands of dollars.

Corruption at it's most efficient.