Re: The war on big food.
Climate change deniers and minimizers are a legitimate political force that has been holding back progress for a long, long time. Long enough that we're probably already permanently fucked, and yet still only 64% of people are concerned about it.
We have big pockets of non-vaccination around here, too, and we've had the outbreaks. Yes, people get sick, schools have to close, and if nobody has directly died as a direct result, it will happen before long. That is horrible, but at a societal level, it's also reversible. And I realize this sounds really cold and all, but the number of people who would die or be seriously affected by preventable disease outbreaks is a hell of a lot smaller than the number that will be affected by climate change.
And it's almost as scientifically illiterate to say "GMOs are safe" as it is to say they aren't. Like 90% of people get all kneejerky on that topic. It has not seemed to me that the people on the anti-anti-GMO side of that argument are any better informed than the antis.
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