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That's such a stupid statement I don't even know how to respond. Like I'd probably need to recreate several years of basic education before we could even be in the framework to consider a proper answer to your question. But which point you'd realize what a stupid premise it is.
Let's start here: why the hate for GMOs, when your problem is with capitalism?
That’s such a stupid statement
Good lord - I so hate dealing with liberals.
The only reason we have GMO food crops in the first place is due to capitalist profiteering - nobody else has any need for it, genius. GMO food crops is a "solution" to a "problem" that never existed.
Is this hard to understand, liberal?
This has nothing to do with being a liberal. Scientists have said it's more sustainable to use GMOs because genetic manipulation is just a tool you can use for good or evil. We have a larger population than ever before and an environmental crisis to deal with. We need every technological advantage we can get. This problem isn't just about capitalism. Even if we get rid of capitalism and find we have enough food it's always better to use less land and cause less environmental damage by using pest resistant crops and nutritional crops like golden rice. That's assuming a revolution solves all food shortages despite the progress of climate change and pollution taking their toll on global food security.
This has nothing to do with being a liberal.
Yes it does, liberal - you swallowing this liberalese hook, line and sinker has everything to do with your shitty liberal politics.
Scientists have said it’s more sustainable to use GMOs
Oh, really? And where is their evidence?
We have a larger population than ever before
So your shitty liberal politics have absolutely nothing to do with the right-wing histrionics you are regurgitating here? You do know that shills get paid for shilling, right? Are you getting yours?
it’s always better to use less land and cause less environmental damage
You mean that exact thing GMO foodcrops have abysmally failed at accomplishing so far?
I mean from a quick google search I found:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138522000048
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/08/20/how-gmos-can-help-farmers-tackle-climate-change/
So your shitty liberal politics have absolutely nothing to do with the right-wing histrionics you are regurgitating here? You do know that shills get paid for shilling, right? Are you getting yours?
You mean facts? It's a fact that the population has been larger than ever and that's happened largely over the last century. It's still growing. I don't expect that to last forever (check the demographic transition model), but I don't expect it to shrink much either. Current agriculture and industry destroys the planet and had done since the industrial revolution. We need more than just politics to combat that. I know politics is obviously an important part of stopping the climate crisis and I won't deny capitalisms role in slowing progress and causing issues to be ignored or exacerbated. Capitalism however didn't invent the steam engine or monocropping.
Also I am not a liberal, you are jumping to insane conclusions. If you stop acting insane people might actually listen.
You mean that exact thing GMO foodcrops have abysmally failed at accomplishing so far?
As everyone here keeps saying a tool can be used for good or ill. Just like how computer technology is used for organising both left and right wing protests. Maybe try to understand what a tool is.
I mean from a quick google search I found:
Have you tried doing a quick google search to find pro-Israeli and pro-genocide articles yet? Yeah... those have been bought and paid for, too.
Should I mention that your third "source" is literally a front group for Bayer? Should we take a closer look at your other two "sources," liberal? Or would you rather I don't?
You mean facts?
Here's some facts for you, liberal - food production is easily adequate for the entire human population. See, liberal? This is what a fact looks like.
Also I am not a liberal,
If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. A liberal you are - your brand of brain-rot is pretty unmistakeable.
As everyone here keeps saying a tool can be used for good or ill.
You mean as all your fellow liberals on here keep saying? Gosh... I wonder why liberals would peddle pro-capitalist narratives by pretending that you can separate capitalist reality from liberal ideology?
It's a complete mystery, I tell you!
I am aware we have the food to feed everyone. Why are you ignoring all the damage to the environment that making all that food causes? You're also informing the fact that climate change will make it much harder to produce and distribute good. Distribution is already a problem today.
Let's say what you have said is true and that GMOs are worthless. What are you going to do about the environmental impact of food production instead? Surely you have some master plan?
Calling someone a liberal isn't going to help your cause. What exactly have I said that makes you think this? Making accusations without having anything to back them up is just going to turn people against you and whatever ideology you support. Is this why leftists always fight? Because they are too busy calling the other side liberals? What ideology is it you support anyway?
Why are you ignoring all the damage to the environment that making all that food causes?
I'm not the one ignoring it, genius. You are the one peddling the techno-fetishist idea that you can simply handwave all these problems away with capitalist-approved techno-fixes that is designed from the ground up to preserve the destructive status quo they created in the first bloody place.
Distribution is already a problem today.
No, liberal - the ability to cause targeted famine amongst people is not a "problem" in a capitalist society. It is a feature. What do you think comes first for a capitalist - the actual, real-world value of a crate of corn, or it's market price?
Spoiler alert - it's not the former.
Surely you have some master plan?
I guess it's true what they say - a liberal will rather imagine the end of the world than imagine the end of capitalism. So much for liberal "rationality," eh?
Calling someone a liberal isn’t going to help your cause
Why? Do you not like being reminded that the liberal ideology you are beholden to is actually an ideology? It is not "rational." It is not "normal." It is not "common sense." It is an ideology designed to protect a status quo that has brought us to the precipice of environmental disaster that it has no intention of saving you from.
Since I don't defend capitalists how am I a liberal? I want a world where the people own the businesses they work for and have a say in how they are run, instead of shareholders owning them. I don't see how that's liberal at all.
What is it you believe anyway?
I'm not the one ignoring it, genius. You are the one peddling the techno-fetishist idea that you can simply
handwave all these problems away with capitalist-approved techno-fixes that is designed from the ground up to preserve the destructive status quo they created in the first bloody place.
I am not saying they will fix all issues. Just that they are a useful tool. You are bending what I have said to support your own bad arguments.
I guess it's true what they say - a liberal will rather imagine the end of the world than imagine the end of capitalism. So much for liberal "rationality," eh?
Wasn't it a marxist who said socialism or barbarism? It seems liberals and marxists are both death cults. Makes sense when you know that Marxists kill all the other socialists like the anarchists.
Since I don’t defend capitalists how am I a liberal?
You don't have to defend capitalism to be a liberal.
I want a world where the people own the businesses they work for and have a say in how they are run
I think you mean, "own the means of production."
Just that they are a useful tool.
Oh, it's useful for many things... colonialism, for one. Just ask Bill Gates!
kill all the other socialists like the anarchists.
I think you mean Marxist-Leninists. Very different from just plain old Marxists. Marxist-Leninism is "Marxist" in the same way that Social Darwinism is "Darwinist."
Do you support some non-Leninist version of Marxism? Leninists are the most common form of Marxist. It's therefore difficult to say they aren't real Marxists. I am actually not against some ideas like libertarian marxism as it's Leninists I fell out with.
You don't have to defend capitalism to be a liberal.
Also weren't you saying that liberals are all about capitalism earlier? How can you be a liberal and not support capitalism? I swear liberal is an American term anyway hardly anyone uses it where I live. Shouldn't you just say capitalist?
You're also completely ignoring that GMOs are required to produce modern insulin. Without them we would have to resort to using pigs again which some people are allergic to. So I guess those people can just die according to you, right?
You’re also completely ignoring that GMOs are required to produce modern insulin.
You want to talk about insulin? You want to talk about an instance where GMOs actually managed to deliver something worthwhile and yet the the powers that controls these GMOs has still managed to price tons of people out of insulin?
Sure. We can do that.
You think people don't need to eat food?
Do you mind being a bit more coherent, liberal?
Ah, so you're just trolling. Got it.
Sooo... no coherence from you?
No surprises there.