One either pays the piper or does without.
Subordinating human health and welfare to profits is evil.
If not, there is no evil. It's all just a matter of-well,--learning to operate in a privatized, monopolistic environment.
It's also stupid- a disastrous social mistake, because the externalized cost of the people repair/treatment/incarceration/reeducation/replacement are socially ruinous. But it's profitable. For Monsanto. Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
"This collaborative initiative is part of AGRA's strategic vision to build partnerships that pool the strengths and resources of the public and private sectors, civil society, farmers organizations, donors, scientists and entrepreneurs across the agricultural value chain," said Mr. Kofi A. Annan, Chairman of the Board of AGRA. "We must implement immediate solutions for today's crisis and do so in the context of a long-term concerted effort to transform smallholder agriculture, to increase productivity and sustainability, and to end poverty and hunger.
I'll I'm saying is that if someone like Annan can yield to big business and if governments have failed to take the initiative then all that is left is big business. Since they have invested the money they can be expected to set the agenda. If people don't like the agenda then it us up to them to not only set a new agenda, but to explain how it will be implemented given present realities.
Are you going to get patent laws changed? Are you going to set up rival R&D labs funded by governments? Are you going to change the subsidy policies of governments for big producers? Are you going to change international trade agreements? Are you going to persuade youngster that staying in rural areas is better than the buzz and potential of big cities? How? Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
My point is that it is counterproductive to absorb the talking points that corporations have used to forward their agenda, and use them as a departure point for our planning, because once you do that, you have ceeded the framework to them. If they set the terms of discourse, however false (and they are false), the outcome is largely determined. And the outcome is, as we can now see, --evil. There is such a thing, you know.
"We need their research to progress"--false.
"They deserve huge returns for their huge necessary investment in research"---false (investment), and false (just returns).
We don't need to solve these problems, because they are corporate fabrications. Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
