109 Nobel Laureates sign a letter slamming Greenpeace.

[NNadir]

109. Obviously these brilliant people think otherwise. One of the more toxic activities on this...

...planet in my view is attaching trivializing political opinions to important scientific issues.

Much of the fear of "giant corporations" around here is, in my view, trivializing. Golden rice was not developed by a corporation in any case, but shit for brains people who have some kind of anti-corporate mumbo jumbo flying around in their brains don't bother to make such distinctions.

In the major drought that took place in the American Midwest a few years back, the entire soybean crop of the United States would have been decimated were it not for the commercial availability of drought resistant soybeans, which, by the way, represented more than 90% of the crop.

GMO soybeans

If vegetable oil hit $15/a bottle had that crop failed, I wonder how many bourgeois types picking lint out of their navels and decrying "corporations" would have given a shit about whether poor people could afford cooking oil.

Probably not many, I'd guess. They live in a rarefied world filled with silly associations, imagining themselves in some socialist paradise that um, doesn't actually exist.

They wouldn't have given a fuck about farmers either.

By the way, most of the world food supply depends wholly and totally on Haber fixed nitrogen, invented by BASF and commercialized now by many, um, big corporations all around the world. In fact, Haber nitrogen is responsible for consuming between 1% to 3% of the world's energy.

Haber nitrogen has many important environmental consequences, but I see very, very, very, very, very few critics of the nitrogen fertilizer industry volunteering to starve to death because they object to corporate input into agriculture.

Have a nice day tomorrow.