That politics test meme

[purchasemonkey]

Test found here: http://www.okcupid.com/politics
   My scores:You are a
Social Liberal (66% permissive)
and an...
Economic Liberal (28% permissive)

You are best described as a:
Democrat
You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.

As a rough-cut, that sounds about right. I suspect it would throw things

Comments

[sgeorge1701]

I like GMO foods designed to make things better, not GMO foods designed to not reproduce so that their seed-owners make more profit. Also, I am a wee bit concerned about contagion, so I'd like a bit more oversight on what we plant and why we engineer things the way we do. That said, I'm happy to eat 'em. Yum.

This is always a "can't win for losing" argument.

If it can't breed - it can't spread! (but you have to charge the farmers an annual fee)

If it can breed - Farmers get free seed (but you could destroy the ecosystem! :-p

Steve

[sgeorge1701]

Honestly, since they are doing MASSIVE farming of GM crops in Africa and there hasn't been a lot of eco-collapse

I think the argument for "sterilise" is overstated.

Just give the farmers the seeds. (well sell them, we are Capitalists. :-D

S

[sgeorge1701]

In africa where we ship lots of grain

Starvation is FAR WORSE than an 'Uptick' in Cancer rates in 20 years.

We've effectively used real life situations to develop a large test bed.

Steve

[sgeorge1701]

Actually - we can get a lot of data from live test subjects...

it's really dark business, but disasters allow that to occur.

As to food aid - I agree it is a mess.

But it is EASY for a major corp to get major real world tests by donating a crops to starving people and just collect the data.

Steve