Fun talk:GMO Bingo

A bit of ignorance displayed in this game.

Namely, by bringing up the questions of:

• sustainability (ie agricultural models that are viable for the long-term, in terms of energy and other resources used to produce food, not to mention looking for foods that are produced by people who are fairly paid for their work, so that they may sustain themselves; what does this have to do with GMO?),
• locally-sourced food (I try my best to buy food that supports my local economy, and that minimizes the need for long, fossil-fuel-dependent supply chains; what does this have to do with GMO?),
• corn syrup (I am at risk for a number of health issues and must minimize sugar consumption; what does this have to do with GMO?)
• hormone-free (I don't want to eat unnecessary hormones; also, why burn fuel to produce and transport them?; what does this have to do with GMO?),
• organics (I prefer to consume some organic foods, they often taste better to me, and don't require as much production of fertilizers, etc, which again, is a carbon-based fuels issue, what does this have to do with GMO?)
• I'd rather see what meat I consume not be caged and have as nice a life as possible before being killed to indulge my decadent, selfish and nutritionally-unnecessary love for the flesh of dead animals. What does this have to do with GMO?

So much of my bottom line when it comes to the issues that make up a big chunk of this exercise has to do with fair pay for hard work, cutting down on the amount of fossil fuels burned to feed me, cutting sugar out of my diet, not wanting meat produced with additional hormones, and wanting Wilbur to be able to walk around a bit before I make my famous home-made pork and beans. GMO food could cease to exist tomorrow, and those concerns would still guide me when I was doing my weekly run to the market. PowderSmokeAndLeather: Say something once, why say it again?. 17:25, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

In other words: the author of the bingo card ran out of anti-GMO talking points and padded the list with unrelated concepts.

I also take issue with the recently added framing: describing these as "PRATTs" doesn't make much sense, given that the majority of the fields don't actually make a point/argument.--ZooGuard (talk) 19:11, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Monsanto

I think MonSATAN should be in the free space, since it's absolutely impossible to have a debate about GMO without Monsanto being mentionned for any or no reason.--Kungo Gumi^{Qui ça ?} 19:40, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Superweeds

A common one. See Where are the super weeds? Cjm (talk) 11:41, 24 December 2013 (UTC)