Hey! I saw you posted about GMOs being safe for consumption. Shouldn’t people’s main problem with GMOs be the fact that they are controlled by companies such as Monsanto, who tend to “bully” local farmers.

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No. This is an issue of democracy, not science.

Young people need to learn how to participate in the public process (and forget about protesting – it doesn’t work). Vote; join a local board; participate in town hall meetings, where lobbyists always show up but the public doesn’t; draft a bill and submit it to your legislator (yes, you can draft a bill); comment on environmental impact statements (EIS); learn how to influence bills in your own state; discover the powerful Federal Register, etc.

Monsanto, Cargill, BSF, etc., participate in the democratic process. Argue with this all you want, but they show up to public meetings. They plan strategies. They draft bills. They comment on EISs. They write legislators, draft bills, leverage the Federal Register – you should too.

Update: Americans vote less than other countries, mostly because young people don’t know how to participate.

Once again, having grown up in a nondemocratic country it baffles me how people throw away their privilege to participate in the process that can actually bring the results. That applies not just to the US, but any country that I believe my followers are from ( except seetheveiled , unfortunately). And yes, protesting and signing online petitions doesn’t appear to work !