What Would Happen If Monsantos Corn Fields Caught On Fire

Question That Contains Assumptions: What will it take for people to realize that the food they are being fed is killing them through GMOs?

It would take for you to demonstrate that "GMO = death".  It doesn't.  We've been genetically modifying foods for thousands of years (ever see an ancient looking corn stalk?  It's like a fucking blade of grass).  We're muddling through the GMO business here and -- as far as our bodies are concerned -- eventually we'll decode exactly what it needs and program that into our modified organisms.  But, before then, I know that most of the "GMO" stuff produced, is sufficiently nutritious to sustain our lives.  The slow genetic manipulation of our animals and plants (through capturing mutations) has created a surfeit of food sufficiently to permit the building of our human civilization -- without them we'd be hunter-gatherers.  Care to imagine life before then?  All of this "NO GMO" hype ends up sounding a bit Unabomber-ish to me.  Even more importantly, if we CAN genetically create plants that have the ability to be grown in inhospitable environments and produce enough food to feed humanity, I feel that we are obligated to do so.  Genetically modifying foods is right now responsible for fewer chemicals being used on farms in the USA and producing bunker crops across the world and feeding people who need that food.  Sure.  People should stop having so many babies.  I get it, overcrowding is a big deal and we need to curtail the explosive population growth.  But there are babies here, RIGHT NOW. Living human beings who would most certainly die were it not for genetically altered foods.  There isn't sufficient "non genetically altered, mutated" plants and animals to feed humanity today.  Frankly, I think preserving human life trumps all other concerns.My buddy Dusty says it best:Corn (Maize), if you don't know, was a grass, and not even a tall one.  It is THE most genetically mutated (engineered, by capturing mutations) over thousands of years.  It now is so completely domesticated that it could not survive without humans.  Its kernels would rot inside thick husks, never reaching the ground to seed a new generation.That thing on the left is the result of "genetic manipulation" by humans over thousands of years -- without any aid of science, the scientific method or the understanding of the consequences.   The stuff on the right is the original plant, undomesticated.  This 24" grass:Were genetically modified by humans to become this 9 foot tall plant:Through manipulation of random mutations, we turned this:Into this:We turned this:Into this:We turned this:Into this:

If you were to be appointed, to be President Donald Trump adviser, what will you advise him?

Depends on the area of policy I was called upon to advise. Despite being a liberal, I’d accept the position and use it to attempt to moderate the riot of unwashed dicks currently running the show.Get a dictionary. Look up the word “nepotism.”Fire Steve Bannon. He represents a clear and legitimate source of nepotism accusations, aside from being the human embodiment of just about everything that is wrong with this country.In fact, fire the whole lot of them, except Gen. Mattis. He seems to be the only one whose legitimacy is not compromised by having substantially supported the Trump campaign.Make a clear, unambiguous, televised, CNN-inclusive statement to the American people, because they’re at each other’s throats with worry right now: Are you or are you not going to allow and indeed support Republican efforts to strip rights away from Americans? You want to go down in history as a successful president? Don’t allow the country to bifurcate along political lines because you wanted to appeal to both without compromising your own position. Welcome to politics, everybody compromises their position at some point.Get in the motherfucking gym. There is a large segment of America that would fare FAR worse under a president Pence than you. Stay healthy.Get off twitter. Seriously, man. The media is going to attack you, it’s what they do. The bigger man has bigger things to worry about. So be the bigger man.

What do you do when your kid says you need to buy everything organic?

I explain to them that “organic means something pooped on it.” ;)When they get a little older, I explain that organic farming is a low yield method of producing dubious quality food that is what people used to do until modern methods evolved that are able to produce an abundant quantity and quality of food, and which, when combined with a global transportation infrastructure, has fundamentally solved the problem of famine and starvation in cultures that participate in the modern economic paradigm.I will then go on to use it as an object lesson in supply and demand. I’ll explain that the belief that organic food is superior to normally produced food, combined with a limited supply, which is primarily driven by the fact that the farming methods are inherently lower yield per acre conspire to drive the price of that food upwards.Finally, I’ll use the matter as a object lesson in empiricism, rational inquiry, and scientific process, as we investigate the claim of superiority, which is based partly on mysticism, partly on broad claims that “chemicals are bad for you, mmmkay?”, partly on the very real historical cases where poorly vetted chemicals actually were bad for you, and partly on institutionalizing fear around the legitimate open questions that basically takes the position “well, we just don’t KNOW that these chemicals/GMO/etc are safe, therefore it’s best to stick with cow dung fertilizer”.