Once and for all, here’s what science says about GMOs

futurismnews:

You’ve probably heard the same conversation, in one way or another, for years: Some say genetically modified organisms (GMO) are harmful, while others say they’ll help us feed the growing billions of humans that populate our planet. People’s positions on the subject seem cemented, bound by the hard stays of emotion, and nearly impossible to change. It’s even more resonant at this intractable moment in the United States, where the division between the two sides on issues from the economy, to gun control, to healthcare — really, just politics in general — seems insurmountable. The further we move from facts and the truth, the harder it is to come to rational conclusions on these subjects.

But to Academy Award-nominated documentary director Scott Hamilton Kennedy, there’s a way to dislodge even the most dogged opponent in these conversations: with science. Read more here. 

Once and for all, here’s what science says about GMOs

I’m on the Wednesday morning train that is bleary-eyedly-hushed as usual, except for a couple(?) next to me – she holding lipstick-smeared coffee and speaking fast in French. I close my eyes and imagine its 1960s and I’m in a Godard’ movie.

To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it. Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming. It means doing the unromantic and tedious work necessary to forge meaningful coalitions, and it means recognizing which coalitions are possible and which coalitions are not. It means knowing that coalition, like unity, means the coming together of whole, self-actualized human beings, focused and believing, not fragmented automatons marching to a prescribed step. It means fighting despair.

Audre Lorde, Learning from the 60s (via blissninnie)

Things broken in 2018 so far:

– The enemy-occupying-force Republicans Trumpists passed the tax “cut” that hiked my taxes

– Dishwasher (it’s 15 yrs old so I guess its time has come, but i had no idea they cost so much) – so back to doing dishes by hand

– L’s favorite toy truck (beyond my abilities to fix it)

– Found this morning that someone smashed into my car while it was parked in the street and left no note. It’s 14 years old but otherwise looked and ran great -but now the door has trouble opening. Choices include spending $1K+ fixing the stupid door, letting the insurance company blacklist me and raise the rates for the rest of my life, or just Ietting it rust away..