So then why try and ban it? If you aren't doing it because you don't like it, then you are simply doing it to take a choice away from people. Either way, you are being an authoritarian.
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Taking away someone's freedom for no logical reason is persecution. They are specifically targeted, and their freedoms are taken away.
Here's a definition for you:
"to treat (someone) cruelly or unfairly especially because of race or religious or political beliefs"
And another:
"hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs"
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No, this is ridiculous, if your interpretation was correct then everyone who like the same sex in countries where they don't allow same-sex marriage are persecuted and can seek asylum because they are persecuted
They can't do that though because they are not being persecuted just from not being recognized as a marriage
Monsanto didn't sue him just because the other seeds happened to drift into his land. They sued him because he intentionally used those seeds to grow a new crop that he knew was Roundup ready (which was, in fact, explicitly WHY he did it). You may disagree with crop patenting, but this was a pretty blatant violation on his part; he wasn't "financially penalised when his crops [got] contaminated by unwanted GM crops" (it's hard to argue they were unwanted when he intentionally replanted them because of the GM quality), nor did Monsanto "[pursue] farmers through court for seed that drifted onto their property" (they pursued him because he intentionally replanted those seeds in the full knowledge of exactly what they were).
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Saying no is not meddling. The people of Europe are well within their rights to grow the kind of food they want to eat, and it's only 'meddling' if you believe that the US companies have an automatic equal right to the European food supply as Europeans do and are willing to give.
Here's a hint: they don't have an automatic equal right to it, nor does Europe have automatic equal rights to sectors we'd wish to be protectionist over in our own fucking country.
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I always thought the market worked through supply and demand. Apparently there is no demand for GMO crap in the EU. Why don't you start producing what is in high demand in the EU (like organic food ) so you can sell it there?
Why does the demand has to adjust to your supply and not the supply to the EU's demand?
On another note: demand for organic foods are skyrocketing in the US. And because US farmers are too dumb to grow organic foods the US has to actually IMPORT organic foods from the EU. Now THAT's funny, ain't it?
Yeah, you can export as much copyrighted GMO food into the EU as you like IF you are labelling it properly, that is. Nobody's going to buy that crap anyways.
Grow whatever you want, it still makes you an authoritarian to refuse others to sell.
Raising a tariff isn't meddling, since you clearly support sovereignty.
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Some gay people have sought asylum from countries that simply ban gay marriage.
1) My original link (which you have obviously neglected to read) discussed that case. For more, http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser
2) I wonder if you realize that your post makes you sound like a Luddite. Again, I don't care if you buy GMO free items. The current voluntary labeling system for this in the US is working well. I -do- have a problem that you apparently want to push your views on others.
So, what's your point? Muslims can be shitty people. That doesn't mean Islam is the culprit, the shitty Muslims are. The same goes for when Christians shame gay people.
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http://www.immigrationequality.org/g...ng-for-asylum/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021106013.html
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Persecution in law refers to people who are being arrested, killed, harassed, or otherwise subjected to crimes for their opinion or being, not having a marriage not recognized
It says this in your link too
The law does not give an exact definition of what persecution is, but generally it is described as more serious than simple harassment or discrimination. Nevertheless, many kinds of mistreatment might rise to the level of persecution, especially if the abuse was frequent over a long period of time.
Discrimination is not enough
The difference is that they didn't come after him because of something that happened outside of his control. He knew the seeds drifted. He knew what seeds drifted. He confirmed that the crops that were growing were from those seeds that drifted, and then intentionally replanted them explicitly because they were the seeds that drifted. You're acting like big, bad Monsanto is overreaching and suing people just because they accidentally wind up with GMO seeds on their property, yet the example you use is about them seeking legitimate redress against a farmer trying to game the system.
Americans wants to sell GMO crops to the EU. I look at America thinking, hmm do they have superior food? Is this what they're selling? We have food in abundance, heck we throw away much of it. Why would we need more/new crops? Looking at the nation that's pushing to get this shit into the EU. Obesity problems, more starving people than my country has ever had. Why would i want to adopt to that? I'm just looking at pros and cons here. I don't *know why you guys are running some fucking errand for the big corporations on a gaming forum though, get over yourselves.
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