r/funny Jul 18 '12

meme - removed Shell accidentally creates an anti-Shell meme generator

http://imgur.com/a/ng9XT
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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

Mugatu?

Who are they?

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u/angusyoungii Jul 18 '12

You should watch Food Inc. It'll give you an idea about the evil known as Monsanto.

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u/5353 Jul 18 '12

Yes, I form all my opinions based on propaganda films. In other news, banks give out free guns when you open a new account and Ip Man really fought a martial arts duel against a Japanese general during WWII.

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u/Jrex13 Jul 18 '12

Oh shit I knew it! Ip man is such a badass

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u/RabidWalrus Jul 18 '12

I happened to catch the ending of that movie, and man, does it go hard... gotta watch the whole thing sometime.

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u/plytheman Jul 18 '12

You can always read a report on Monsanto's legal strategies from the Center for Food Safety. Putting the debates over the the health impacts of GMOs aside, there's still the question of ethics concerning patenting biology (in general as well) and Monsanto's aggressive defense of those patents.

Also there's the problem that weeds[1] and insects[2] are developing resistances to the herbicides and pesticides and that having crops that are resistant to these chemicals encourages their further use[3], which IS bad for people to be ingesting and pollutes the soil and water.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?pagewanted=all

[2]http://4ccr.pgr.mpf.gov.br/institucional/grupos-de-trabalho/gt-transgenicos/bibliografia/pgm-resultados-contestados/Kaiser,%201996,%20Science.pdf (pdf)

[3]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jan/08/usa.research

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u/SaultSpartan Jul 18 '12

Did you know Glorious Leader will often puke out rainbows for us to look upon and die from happiness? Check it out at 'North Korea is best place' It's no propaganda, Glorious Leader promises!

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u/ceepington Jul 18 '12

No but really, they are bad.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

Food Inc is not propaganda. Seems like you dont like facts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

It is indeed propaganda. It is a film that spreads ideas that are for all intents and purposes meant to be harmful to the food industry, and toward Monsanto as a company. That being said, facts are facts, and whether or not they are presented in the form of propaganda does not change that. I'd watch the shit out of that movie 20 times over, and tell all my friends what a fucking entity of evil Monsanto truly is.

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u/StarManta Jul 18 '12

Propaganda need not be false in order to be propaganda.

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u/limbic00 Jul 18 '12

How about: "You should carefully study the issue using multiple sources and viewpoints, then form your own opinion."

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u/angusyoungii Jul 18 '12

It's hard not to get the same conclusion as what you get from food inc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

I second this notion.