If You Haven't Read "The Windup Girl"...
Jan. 5th, 2011 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdre...then you may have missed the bleak post-GMO food crop world Bacigalupi paints.
It should surprise no one that the US, specifically the government lobbying on behalf of industrial food designers, is trying to push the EU (and the rest of the world) into GMO crops.
Maybe because I haven't been watching what's been happening in the religious world, I didn't expect this piece of pushback, "Because many Catholic bishops in developing countries have been vehemently opposed to the controversial crops, the US applied particular pressure to the pope's advisers."
Yay, Catholic bishops. Yay, Wikileaks.
It's interesting that, in this day and age, we are still trying to turn the world through the papacy, something that I was previously unaware of. (I was also unaware we had an embassy in the Vatican, but in retrospect that's unsurprising.)
It should surprise no one that the US, specifically the government lobbying on behalf of industrial food designers, is trying to push the EU (and the rest of the world) into GMO crops.
Maybe because I haven't been watching what's been happening in the religious world, I didn't expect this piece of pushback, "Because many Catholic bishops in developing countries have been vehemently opposed to the controversial crops, the US applied particular pressure to the pope's advisers."
Yay, Catholic bishops. Yay, Wikileaks.
It's interesting that, in this day and age, we are still trying to turn the world through the papacy, something that I was previously unaware of. (I was also unaware we had an embassy in the Vatican, but in retrospect that's unsurprising.)