• unalivejoy@lemmy.zip
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    10 小时前

    I will blame the Monsanto corporation (now Bayer). Their powerful herbicide (Roundup) and trademarked herbicide resistant seeds (Roundup Ready) with predatory contracts made agriculture both more productive and more expensive.

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      Also capturing the market and creating an unhealthy mono-culture. The overuse of pesticides has also caused a bug apocalypse that will eventually destroy our food chain leading to the end of wild animal life as we know it.

      So they didn’t just fuck over the farmers, they fucked the whole world over and they get to laugh all they way to the bank.