Corporate personhood is a legal concept that's used in the U.S. to recognize corporations as individuals in the eyes of the law.

As an Agricultural Economist (well, ok, I'm finishing up my Undergrad in Agri Econ), I agree that 90% of the resistance to GMO's is somewhere between uniformed to reactionary batshit crazy. That said, I am still "against GMO's".

Not because GMO's are inherently wrong, or "unnatural" (but please, don't compare gene…

The real issue isn't that people should be afraid of GM technology; the technology is great. The real issue is the greed that is inevitably bred from having the potential power to control the agricultural base of the global economy. When GM tech corporations start (overtly or otherwise) contaminating non GM-crop…

There are really two distinct safety issues: one of which is total nonsense and one of which is, I think, worth careful consideration. The first issue is whether these GM foods are unsafe for humans to consume. Of course not. What we call corn has been genetically modified over thousands of years; genetic mutations…

GMO foods =/= Monsanto

LOL

As I understand it, the rainbow papaya was an F1 hybrid 'engineered' by the sort of traditional plant breeding techniques that have been with us for many decades. If that is so, then describing it as a GMO is, at best, underhand. I am sure that big-agribusiness is delighted to muddy the waters in this way at every…

Backed by actual peer reviewed studies or was that just some horseshit that a local farmer told you while trying to sucker you into buying an overpriced papaya?

One of the things I found interesting when I started meeting Israelis was realizing how one-sided American coverage of Israel was. There's a lot more open debate *within* Israel than we hear about here.

Riiiiiight

A little man slaps a big man in the face. The big man beats him to a bloody pulp with a crowbar, then beats up anyone standing near him, then complains to sympathetic bystanders about how much his face hurts now.

Yeh this reminds me a bit of the Brutalist architecture of WW2 beach defenses in Normandy. Whatever you feel comfortable living in I guess? Can't help feeling there should be a big gun on the roof...

Böners are wonderful German street food.

Despair for the actual human beings that lives there, I feel that.

Yes, this is true. We all know that a women's team hasn't been fucked this hard since the US Women's snowboarding team discovered Tinder at this past Olympics.

Google should take the wheels off Brazil's car on their doodle.

The one being driven by the underdog. Everyone thinks it's the jock but its really the bad boy mysterious loner who spends all class in the parking lot working on his car with a shitty exterior. He proves it at the end when he beats the jock in a race and then the cheerleader gives him a handy on the ride back to the…

Did you fuck your neighbor's sister right in her pussy?