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Well that would be my favourite conspiracy ever, considering the people running it must be the most incompetent evil scheming overlords ever.

If they're running an "unregulated extrajudicial campaign against public awareness", it is a spectacular failure, considering Monsanto is among the most-hated companies on the planet. Can we somehow get them hired by Syria's government?



Maybe they simply don't give a damn, because they realize general population is not their target market, and so it doesn't matter what regular people think of them?


And yet as an agricultural company, almost every person on earth is touched by their products or intellectual property. Regular people don't care but 7 billion potential and unaware users of their products might...


The question is - does "7 billion potential and unaware users" becoming aware affects their bottom-line? If it doesn't, then they probably won't care.

I'm not saying it is good, but that's how things work. That's e.g. why boycotts generally don't work.




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