Forum Post: Monsanto's Terrifying New Scheme: Massive Amounts of Data Collection
Posted 10 years ago on Jan. 1, 2014, 11:58 a.m. EST by BradB
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from Washington, DC
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Why is the biotech giant paying huge sums for info about farms?
Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about where to plant seeds, spray fertilizer and steer tractors are made by software on servers on the other side of the sea.
This is what more and more of our agriculture may come to look like in the years ahead, as farming meets Big Data. There’s no shortage of farmers and industry gurus who think this kind of “smart” farming could bring many benefits. Pushing these tools onto fields, the idea goes, will boost our ability to control this fiendishly unpredictable activity and help farmers increase yields even while using fewer resources.
The big question is who exactly will end up owning all this data, and who gets to determine how it is used.
There's nothing terrifying about this.
The scary thing is, that people fall for this kind of propaganda.
This company, and all of the biotechs involved in the attempted coup over our food, are having their collective arses handed to them all over the globe.
The surprising thing, to any sane mind, is that Americans are still eating this poison, while everyone else gets a different product, sent from the same American supplier.
If that doesn't make y'all feel special, I'm not sure what will.
Don't drink the Kool-aid, kids.