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Originally posted by 547000
reply to post by Jana12
The problem with that is farmers are allowed to choose whether to use Monsanto products or not. No one is forcing anyone.
Originally posted by 547000
reply to post by Jana12
The problem with that is farmers are allowed to choose whether to use Monsanto products or not. No one is forcing anyone.
Originally posted by 547000
reply to post by MegaMind
And yet, does that implicate all of its workers as evil?
Originally posted by 547000
A lot of members claim that anyone having an opposing view to the majority is "trolling".
Originally posted by 547000
How are they "coerced"? Please tell me. As far I can see farmers can choose what sort of farms to raise. Some Indian farmers decided Monsanto crops would have been a good investment, and now they feel it was a bad investment.
A lot of members claim that anyone having an opposing view to the majority is "trolling".
Originally posted by 547000
How are they "coerced"? Please tell me. As far I can see farmers can choose what sort of farms to raise.
Originally posted by MegaMind
Originally posted by 547000
reply to post by MegaMind
And yet, does that implicate all of its workers as evil?
If their workers work for them in the full knowledge of the damage and suffering they cause then - yes they are part of the evil that the company is.
If a janitor took a job cleaning the corporate offices and didn't have a clue what the company did then obviously no.
But that guy who represents Monsanto and visited the Indian farms is no janitor is he?
He was Monsanto's rep - the front man.
If he doesn't know exactly who he works for I would be very surprised.
To go to those farmers ruined by this company and spout company propaganda is stupid to say the least.
Would an SS officer of the Nazis be part of the evil that was the Nazis?
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Originally posted by 547000
How are they "coerced"? Please tell me. As far I can see farmers can choose what sort of farms to raise. Some Indian farmers decided Monsanto crops would have been a good investment, and now they feel it was a bad investment.
A lot of members claim that anyone having an opposing view to the majority is "trolling".
"How are they coerced" ...Through outright threats and market ploys.
Trolling = Stupid questions, as if the person, is retarded (I'll assume you aren't?)
Trolling = Short, quippy posts, nothing of content.
Trolling = Lengthening a decent thread into pages and pages of back >< forth one-line "prove it to me then..." conversations. Pages and pages of nothing, whereas YOU will do no research, like a good little troll you live under a bridge and just hassle anyone who tries to cross. You yourself, will contribute no research.
Carry on...
Originally posted by MegaMind
Originally posted by 547000
How are they "coerced"? Please tell me. As far I can see farmers can choose what sort of farms to raise.
Then you can't see very far. Watch Food, Inc. and get some perspective on Monsanto.
Originally posted by 547000
Originally posted by MegaMind
Originally posted by 547000
reply to post by MegaMind
And yet, does that implicate all of its workers as evil?
If their workers work for them in the full knowledge of the damage and suffering they cause then - yes they are part of the evil that the company is.
If a janitor took a job cleaning the corporate offices and didn't have a clue what the company did then obviously no.
But that guy who represents Monsanto and visited the Indian farms is no janitor is he?
He was Monsanto's rep - the front man.
If he doesn't know exactly who he works for I would be very surprised.
To go to those farmers ruined by this company and spout company propaganda is stupid to say the least.
Would an SS officer of the Nazis be part of the evil that was the Nazis?
So if anyone chooses to join a company owned by Rupert Murdoch, they are evil now? I completely disagree with the hyperbole that Monsanto is "poisoning" the food supply. If the SS officer commited a crime, he could be implicated. But he shouldn't be implicated simply because he was an SS officer. Or is the pope an evil Hitler youth now? Some Hitler youth may have done bad things, but does that implicate them all?
not.
Originally posted by 547000
So if anyone chooses to join a company owned by Rupert Murdoch, they are evil now?
Originally posted by 547000
If the SS officer commited a crime, he could be implicated. But he shouldn't be implicated simply because he was an SS officer.
Originally posted by 547000
Or is the pope an evil Hitler youth now? Some Hitler youth may have done bad things, but does that implicate them all?
Originally posted by 547000
All the man did was deny that it was the Monsanto crop's fault. Did he design them? No. Does he set company policy? No.
Originally posted by 547000
I completely disagree with the hyperbole that Monsanto is "poisoning" the food supply.
Originally posted by 547000
I disagree with your definition of trolling. Are you trolling me?
Is marketing now "coercion"?edit on 18-7-2011 by 547000 because: (no reason given)edit on 18-7-2011 by 547000 because: (no reason given)
reply to post by MegaMind
If they knowingly contribute to the evil any company is doing then yes. Would you sweep the floors for a KKK meeting house?
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Originally posted by 547000
I disagree with your definition of trolling. Are you trolling me?
Is marketing now "coercion"?edit on 18-7-2011 by 547000 because: (no reason given)edit on 18-7-2011 by 547000 because: (no reason given)
No, I am standing on the bridge, telling you to crawl under your bridge like a good little troll, and shut up or provide some research. I am asking you not to prolong this thread with your tennis-game, or at least to act more like an actual curious person, not an owned, soulless husk.
I am calling you out, thread-lengthener. Your posts (like the above) are vapid, and betray little thought.
I will answer your question however, because trolls melt when they feel sunlight, it's safer under your bridge...
The question you stupidly ask, "Is marketing now 'coercion'"? ...Actually, yes it is. Because "markets" as such, are complete and utterly controlled by politics and corporations. See, politics and corporations pretend to not be in collusion, but we can see that they are. So yes absolutely marketing (when combined with the lie of separation between state and golobocorps) is the most pure form of coercion but especially when there is an army of trolls to steer people away from conspiracy.
Conspiracy = fact. Shall I take pages and pages of your trollspace in this thread, to explain that? Evil corporations giving the cold shoulder to dead farmers = fact.
You'd have to have a heart, or a soul to research that. So we must let you off the hook and free you from participating usefully in this thread. Feel free to continue as your are: A total vacuum-y troll with nothing but a bridge to defend.
Originally posted by 11azerus11
reply to post by MegaMind
If they knowingly contribute to the evil any company is doing then yes. Would you sweep the floors for a KKK meeting house?
that made me laugh and please 547000 would you?
Originally posted by 547000
Originally posted by 11azerus11
reply to post by MegaMind
If they knowingly contribute to the evil any company is doing then yes. Would you sweep the floors for a KKK meeting house?
that made me laugh and please 547000 would you?
I might if I needed the money. Would that make me a criminal?