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Originally Posted by Zygote
this promo proved nothing of this. it was just a bunch of demagoguery. i've seen this entire film too btw.
this video ignores exactly my point about the benefits of trade. I dont know if you have been to farm country but there are real farms in north america, and they are everywhere. They really have barns, and they really produce things. They look just like they do in the grocery store pictures. Also what is wrong with having varying foods always in season, enabled by the greatness of trade and efficiency of production? What is wrong with food being pre-deboned? How is this deceptive? If it still had bones then that would be deceptive . what is wrong with using organic compounds like ethylene to hasten ripening if so desired? is it wrong for me to put my unripe avocados in a bag with bananas? There are real concerns though and then there is quack non-sense yelling about corporations, anti-capitalism, etc.
Demagoguery rules the day in certain other arenas, but I don't think that's the case here.
I agree with your general point, but not at all with the particulars.
For instance, I agree that not all "non-traditional" methods are somehow bad, and have gotten swept up in the move to eliminate the ones that are "somehow bad."
It is definitively disingenuous for companies that use almost exclusively factory farming to peddle to those who enjoy fancying themselves wholesome or "traditional."
But worse, I think, are the tactics of Monsanto, which are pretty much indisputably grotesque. If nothing else, I would simply prefer not to participate in any system of any sort that feeds (so to speak) into such ugliness and corruption.
I mean, between the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry, the wolves are assuredly in the hen house, whether the hen house has windows or not.
Wouldn't you agree?