Great meetings down in Minnesota with all the Canadian and US wheat
grower organizations, both NAWG and state, this week. Speaking as a
Canadian, startling how similar our issues are in these 2 countries and
the willingness to work together.
There will be many opportunities to work together in the future in areas
like social media, breeding, using the incredible model of farmer
ownership of trait development and seed royalties (they will not do EPR),
agronomic research shared from the great plains area, on and on. If you
want a trait in wheat, Kansas state is set up with double haploid
technology and will seek out any trait we would want. Farmer to farmer.
A burning question, and would like the communities thoughts on this, is
response to social media. The onslaught of bad and misleading information
continues to be a very well funded and concerted effort on the part of
no-gmo and organic manipulating money hungry corporations. This is not
the parsely's of the world i'm talking about, they are mostly harmless.
I'm talking, for example, the Chipotle's of the world. Corps like A&Ws,
General mills, etc, making a quick buck off the wave of hysteria. Have a
peak at "crow", designed to sell cheap tacos by chipotle by making them
unique at the cost of making conventional farming industrial and
unhealthy. couple minutes long each, millions of views.
The $carecrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtnas5ScSE
and Back to the $tart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos
Since the non conventional ag and food sector could not effectively
deceive in the legal system (supreme court challenges against biotech
etc), they chose to deceive in the court of public opinion where there
are no rules, only truthiness as Colbert would say.
At what point do youtube videos, tweets, and advertising direct sound
policy, science based regulatory systems and food safety to become
irrational - falsely created by social popularity?
Should Ag reply in social media? Or should we just ignore it and be as
ineffective as the oil industry?
grower organizations, both NAWG and state, this week. Speaking as a
Canadian, startling how similar our issues are in these 2 countries and
the willingness to work together.
There will be many opportunities to work together in the future in areas
like social media, breeding, using the incredible model of farmer
ownership of trait development and seed royalties (they will not do EPR),
agronomic research shared from the great plains area, on and on. If you
want a trait in wheat, Kansas state is set up with double haploid
technology and will seek out any trait we would want. Farmer to farmer.
A burning question, and would like the communities thoughts on this, is
response to social media. The onslaught of bad and misleading information
continues to be a very well funded and concerted effort on the part of
no-gmo and organic manipulating money hungry corporations. This is not
the parsely's of the world i'm talking about, they are mostly harmless.
I'm talking, for example, the Chipotle's of the world. Corps like A&Ws,
General mills, etc, making a quick buck off the wave of hysteria. Have a
peak at "crow", designed to sell cheap tacos by chipotle by making them
unique at the cost of making conventional farming industrial and
unhealthy. couple minutes long each, millions of views.
The $carecrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtnas5ScSE
and Back to the $tart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos
Since the non conventional ag and food sector could not effectively
deceive in the legal system (supreme court challenges against biotech
etc), they chose to deceive in the court of public opinion where there
are no rules, only truthiness as Colbert would say.
At what point do youtube videos, tweets, and advertising direct sound
policy, science based regulatory systems and food safety to become
irrational - falsely created by social popularity?
Should Ag reply in social media? Or should we just ignore it and be as
ineffective as the oil industry?