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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by bovermyer on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:18AM (#35356123)
I'm not in favor of banning GMOs, incidentally. The part of the-company-formerly-known-as-Monsanto I take issue with is their predatory practices, like suing farmers for inadvertently cross-pollinating their crops from Monsanto-copyrighted seeds from a neighboring farmer's fields.
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by pfdietz on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:54AM (#35356522)
You're being a useful fool here, repeating that outright lie, which has been well debunked even here on HN. The scoundrels committing this blood libel against Monsanto and GMOs count on people like you to propagate their poison.
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by yamtaddle on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:05AM (#35358324)
> The scoundrels committing this blood libel against Monsanto and GMOs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

Ahem. Dafuq?

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by bovermyer on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:31AM (#35358695)
"Blood libel?" What in the actual f**?

Well, if you're going to be antisemitic, then we're done here. Maybe consider getting some help.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by pfdietz on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:35AM (#35358759)
I'm being the opposite of antisemitic.
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by mrguyorama on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:52PM (#35360756)
Comparing people being fooled by propaganda to "Blood libel" is atrocious and just as stupid, hollow, and heartless as the american conservatives who said not being able to get a haircut during the pandemic was comparable to the holocaust.

Get a fucking break man. You can educate people that GMOs aren't on their own a danger and that there is a lot of misinformation about these things without being a miserable asshole.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by pfdietz on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:02PM (#35360902)
It's two groups of people fooled into demonization for political purposes. And in each case, there is significant harm as a result. I will grant the Holocaust was likely a larger harm, but don't dismiss the harm caused by GMO negativity (which is inextricably bound to Monsanto demonization). Golden Rice blockage alone is arguably an act of genocide.
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by mrfreed on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:54AM (#35371232)
Monsanto is very aggressive to the environment, the farmers, food heritage and common decency. This twisting of reason and aggression you commit is a serious farce. "Blood libel" WTF??
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by pfdietz on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:59AM (#35371954)
Monsanto is subject to outrageous politicized libel of the sort you parrot there. For example, your "to the farmers" there is likely a repeat of the brazen lie that they sue farmers for inadvertent GMO contamination.
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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by hobo_in_library on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:15PM (#35365287)
Their RoundupReady crops seem to have another poison hidden inside them (literally!)

The Roundup pesticide that those crops are sprayed with is made of Glyphosate, and testers keep finding that pesticide showing up inside corn, wheat, and oat products. Seems like those crops don't just ignore the pesticide, they actually absorb it into their grains https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/glyphosate-contaminat...

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